Top 29 Peter Stuyvesant Quotes
#1. I swear on Peter Stuyvesant's peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of New Amsterdam than it does to Boston's communitarian English majors.
Sarah Vowell
#2. 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.
Peter Stuyvesant
#3. If there was a bridge between the Sun and the Earth, that would be a wonderful road to hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.
Greg Palast
#6. I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
Daniel Radcliffe
#7. Honey, life can be a ballroom dance and it can be full of shit. Your job in both cases is to watch where you step.
Lorna Landvik
#8. And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
Saul Bellow
#9. I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
Peter Stuyvesant
#10. My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? '
'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?'
- Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher
#11. The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant
#12. To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Peter Stuyvesant
#14. 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.
Peter Stuyvesant
#15. Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#16. With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#17. Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.
Peter Stuyvesant
#18. 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.
Peter Stuyvesant
#19. The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
Peter Stuyvesant
#20. We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
Kenneth Blackwell
#21. I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
Peter Stuyvesant
#22. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
#23. There is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
Gertrude Stein
#24. 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.
Peter Stuyvesant
#25. There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.
Israel Horovitz
#27. It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
Peter Stuyvesant
#28. Let everyone regulate his conduct ... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
William Wilberforce
#29. Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
Martin Luther King Jr.
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