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Quote by Peter Stuyvesant
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is d

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

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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

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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. – Samuel E. Morison

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