Hernando de Soto/first Expedition - Conquest of Peru

Famous quotes containing the words expedition, conquest and/or peru:

    It is a sort of ranger service. Arnold’s expedition is a daily experience with these settlers. They can prove that they were out at almost any time; and I think that all the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
    To be afeared to tell greybeards the truth?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard—it is absurd, unreal, dangerous.... The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)