Peter Stuyvesant Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 14 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Peter Stuyvesant.
Famous Quotes By 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
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
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