Peter Stuyvesant quotes

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth. (Peter Stuyvesant)
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians. View quote
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. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart. View quote
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. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
I shall govern you as a father his children. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects. View quote
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. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
When Stuyvesant clamped down on the excessive drinking in the town, or forbade some of the more obviously pagan folk festivals, or tried to keep the town free of the foolish Quakers... did any of the merchants support him? Hardly any. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
Stuyvesant had learnt to rule wisely. Yet were the people grateful? Of course not. They resented his rule. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand. (Peter Stuyvesant)
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant