Peter Stuyvesant quotes
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“I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.”
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“The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.”
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“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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“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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“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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“Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.”
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“I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.”
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“It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.”
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“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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“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”
-- Peter StuyvesantSource : "Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York". Book by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan and John Romeyn Brodhead, 1853.
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