"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."

"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 …"

"[The United States] has gone to the extent of carrying out modern acts of piracy, stopping ships in the middle of the…"

"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 …"