“Needless to say, when that goal becomes personal salvation, the people who inhabit this earthly, tainted, and mortal world become dispensable.”

“The explorers used blankets and other supplies for barter to get food from the native people.”

“The subject of natural philosophy, with long practice, was so familiar to me, and the ground I was upon had been so scrupulously examined.”

“Vander's contradictory impulses, to conceal and to reveal, are not exposed as a failing but revealed as inherent to speech.”

“He both recalled and described his behavior as a policymaker in a manner consistent with his personality and belief system.”