Talk:Peter Stuyvesant

I have moved most of the quotes to "unsourced" as the sources are very inadequate.--Poetlister 19:10, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

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• I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
  • -Tranquility quotes

• The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
  • On the arrival of Jews from Brazil, September 22, 1654-Heritage Civilization and the Jews

• * The attack on St. Martin did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
  • Stuyvesant in a report to his employers of the West India Company-Claude J. Peck, Jr, Delivered to The Chicago Literary Club

• Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
  • -Annie Thoms, Christopher Marshall

• I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
  • -Annie Thoms, Christopher Marshall

• 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.

• 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.

• To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

• The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

• 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.

• 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.

• Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.

• 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.

• It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

• It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.