Hernán Cortés (c. 1485-1547)
“Comrades, since we are few, we must always be as ready and as much on the alert as if we already saw our enemy coming to attack us.”
- Quote attributed to Hernán Cortés in The Conquest of New Spain (chapter 62) by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492-1580), translated by J. M. Cohen (Penguin Classics, 1963).
