Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

#1. It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

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#2. The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

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#3. 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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#4. I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

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#5. The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

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#6. 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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#7. Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

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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. 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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#10. Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

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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. 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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#13. I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

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#14. It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

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