Vasco Núñez de Balboa Quote
One thing I supplicate your majesty: that you will give orders, under a great penalty, that no bachelors of law should be allowed to come here [the New World]; for not only are they bad themselves, but they also make and contrive a thousand iniquities.
To Ferdinand V of Spain in 1513
As quoted in: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (Oxford University Press, USA, 2006), p. 375
