"PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it."

"It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy."

"Our prize is won, our chase is o’er, Turn the vessel to the shore. Place yon rock, so that the wind, Like a prisoner,…"

"To the mast nail our flag, it is dark as the grave, Or the death which it bears while it sweeps o’er the wave. Let ou…"

"When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince."

"Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing …"

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

"Come friends, who plough the sea: Truce to navigation, Take another station. Let us vary piracy With a little burglary!"

"Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest— Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-h…"

"On the following morning, the 22nd, I climbed to the top of the lighthouse of Port Said. It is one of the highest in …"