Peter Stuyvesant Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians. — Peter Stuyvesant

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches. — Peter Stuyvesant

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

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals. — Peter Stuyvesant

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

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants. — Peter Stuyvesant

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth. — Peter Stuyvesant

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

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. — Peter Stuyvesant

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. — Peter Stuyvesant

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