William Kidd quotes
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“This is a very fickle and faithless generation.”
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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 KiddSource : 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 KiddSource : 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.”
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“I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.”
-- William Kidd
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Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
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“One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.”
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“The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.”
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