Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Peter Stuyvesant:

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#c595b86c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#464a11de

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#515f75b6

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#69e2a133

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#9239cabd

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#bc92ff94

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#99bc3a47

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#0f90d2d2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#f05d14c3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#7a65113d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#cbfe6785

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
~Peter Stuyvesant


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#b5244c88

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
~Peter Stuyvesant


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/peter-stuyvesant-quotes/#a5bbdd40

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