18 Quotes by Peter Stuyvesant
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The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
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The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
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The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
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To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
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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.
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Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.
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Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.
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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.
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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.
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