Peter Stuyvesant Quotes
Peter Stuyvesant Quotes
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I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
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I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
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It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
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It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
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It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
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Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.
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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.
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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.
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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 of New England.
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The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
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- 12
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
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- 13
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
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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.
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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.
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