Peter Stuyvesant Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Peter Stuyvesant Quotes and Sayings
- 1
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
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- 2
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
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- 3
It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
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- 4
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
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- 5
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
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- 6
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
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- 7
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
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- 8
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
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- 9
The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
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- 10
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
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- 11
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
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- 12
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
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- 13
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
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