William Kidd quotes

“This is a very fickle and faithless generation.”
-- William Kidd

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“My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.”
-- William Kidd

Source : Carrie (Jenkins) [Harris ("Mrs. C. W. Harris"]), Charles Edward Lloyd, Mary (Queen of Scots), Francis Hargrave, William Kidd (1899). “State Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd”

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“I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.”
-- William Kidd

Source : William Kidd, Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty (1936). “The tryal of Capt. William Kidd for murther & piracy upon six several indictments: as also the tryals of Nicholas Churchill, James Howe, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owens, Richard Barlicorn, & Darby Mullins, at the Admiralty sessions held at the Old Bailey, London, on the 8th & 9th of May, 1701”

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“I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.”
-- William Kidd

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“I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.”
-- William Kidd

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“All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.”

“History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.”

Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge

“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”

“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”

“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”

“Human memory is short and terribly fickle.”

“I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.”

“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”

“One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.”

“The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.”