Samuel Marsden

“I am under no apprehension of any danger from the natives.”

“Savage as these people are, they are not destitute of a moral sense.”

“The axe, the saw, the spade, and the hoe, the grinder, the smith, the spinner, the weaver, the miller, are all missionaries in this work.”

“Nothing of a spiritual nature can be done for them until their temporal wants have been supplied.”

“The soil is so rich and the climate so mild that every thing will grow that is grown in any part of the world.”

“It was my decided opinion that it was the duty of Great Britain to civilize and christianize the New Zealanders.”

“Commerce is the grand engine which God employs to civilize the world.”

“The missionaries must be men of piety, of humble minds, and of industrious habits.”

“I wished to convince his friends that I had not come to the island to trade in heads, or in muskets, or in powder.”