William Kidd Quotes

• I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

  William Kidd

  Soul, Hell, Harm

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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

  Pirate, Lord, Sentences

  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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• This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

  William Kidd

  History, Generations, Fickle

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• I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

  William Kidd

  People, Wicked, Has Beens

  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

  Good Friend, Journey, Care

  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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