Peter Stuyvesant Quotes & Sayings
13 most famous Peter Stuyvesant quotes and sayings (public servant). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.”
“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.”
“It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.”
“The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.”
“It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.”
“Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.”
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