Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

• I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peace, Heart, Loyal

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• Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Youth, Instruction, Importance

  "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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• I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Christian, Blood, Hundred

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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.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Names, Race, Enemy

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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.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Loss, Afterlife, Legs

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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.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peace, War, Blessed

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

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Hands, Anxiety, Littles

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• The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  People, Moral

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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.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Patience, Speech, Bears

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• Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Littles, Tomorrow, March

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