Samuel de Champlain

“I was to advance to the country of the Iroquois... there to show them the extent of our power.”

“The salvation of a single soul is worth more than the conquest of an empire.”

“Of all the most useful and excellent arts, that of navigation has always seemed to me to occupy the first place.”

“My only object was to make a discovery of the country and to see those things which no one else had ever seen before me.”

“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.”

“It is my great desire to found a state in this country.”