“Whenever a fellow is recommended to me by the religious instructor or the surgeon superintendent, I always set that fellow down as the greatest hypocrite of the whole lot.”
Commandant John Giles Price's stated distrust of claimed convict reform, reflecting the harsh, punishment-first regime he ran at Norfolk Island from 1846 to 1853.
— John Giles Price, Norfolk Island
Source: Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore (1986), citing contemporary accounts of Price's administration
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