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

- Peter Stuyvesant

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

- Peter Stuyvesant

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

- 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 …

- Peter Stuyvesant

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

- Peter Stuyvesant

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

- 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 lis…

- 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

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 peac…

- Peter Stuyvesant