Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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