"They usually dealt with the chieftains and nobles in the following way: they made a grid of rods which they placed on…"

"...and never have the Indians in all the Indies committed any act against the Spanish Christians, until those Christi…"

"Men, from their early years, are reared in the midst of goods of the body and senses, the source of corrupt behavior,…"

"Christ wanted love to be called his single commandment. This we owe to all men. Nobody is excepted."

"Christ seeks souls, not property. ... He who wants a large part of mankind to be such that ... he may act like a fero…"

"More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated,…"

"We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the…"

"After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, thes…"

"And of all the infinite universe of humanity, these people are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and …"

"And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against…"