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 trouble this new colony."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Christ, Enemies, Name, Race, Trouble)

"To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Company, Profit)

"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: People, Morals)

"The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here."
- Peter Stuyvesant

"I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Heart, Tranquility)

"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
(Related: Patience, Treatment)

"Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Day, Force, March, Tomorrow, Will)

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Anxiety)

"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Intention)

"I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Christian, Blood, Value)

"The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Loss, Right, Succeed)

"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."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Design, EnglForce, Possessions, Reform)