Peter Stuyvesant Quotes
- We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and…
- It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
- I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
- Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
- 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…
- The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
- 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…
- I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
- It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
- The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
- The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
- To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
- The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform…