Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Stuyvesant

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch public servant Peter Stuyvesant.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Peter Stuyvesant was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was split into New York and New Jersey with lesser territory becoming parts of other colonies, and later, states. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City and his name has been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout the city.

Dutch - Public Servant | 1612 - 1672

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

Peter Stuyvesant

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

Peter Stuyvesant

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

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

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

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

Peter Stuyvesant

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

Peter Stuyvesant

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

Peter Stuyvesant