Peter Stuyvesant famous quotes

03-28-2025

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
-- Peter Stuyvesant

#Peace #Heart #Loyal
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
-- Peter Stuyvesant

#People #Moral
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
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
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
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
-- Peter Stuyvesant

#Littles #Tomorrow #March
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
-- Peter Stuyvesant

#Christian #Blood #Hundred
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
-- Peter Stuyvesant

#Hands #Anxiety #Littles
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

#Race #Names #Enemy
Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.
-- Peter Stuyvesant

#Youth #Instruction #Importance

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