1. "If I had as many lives as a cat, I would risk them all for my country."
2. "We ventured our lives as others, why should we not enjoy our parts as they do?"
3. "It's not enough to win. Others must lose."
4. "As for our designs, they are no other than peace and tranquility, by settling ourselves at some place where we may live, and plant, in that innocent way as may give no scandal or disturbance to any, but the Spaniard."
5. "They that go by your name are the pirates and sea thieves; for they rob without commission from any prince or state. We are authorized by our commissions." - In response to the accusation of piracy.
6. "The Spaniards have made such frequent and such bitter wars upon us, and so continually have made it their whole employ to root our nation out of America that to this day the English may not possess a foot of land nor enjoy one port or river in all that country, but under the dominion and awe of the Spanish forts and garrisons."
7. "We who follow the sea have but three enemies, the rock, the shoal, and the Spaniard. And two of them we can see clearly."
8. "We live on the ocean like fishes in the sea, and like sea fishes, we have enemies for ever around us."
9. "He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day."
10. "To the brave and honest all things are possible."
11. "I have made my fortune at Panama and my friends at Porto Bello."
12. "The law says men are equal. That is what I understand. All men, that is; except blacks and women."
13. "Those were the days when men were men and women were glad of it."
14. "The only way to save one's self is by attacking."