Bram Stoker Quotes
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Archibald Constable and Company, 1897, p. 22.
Justifying selling part of the reservation as a waste dump to the distress of neighbors:
Bush, not one of our literati presidents or a strong orator, came out with numerous tautological statements that actually said nothing and gave his political enemies another opening for criticism.
He particularly had difficulty with the Pope and whose authority was supposed to be dominant in Europe. King Henry left the Catholic Church and made Protestantism the official English Church. It has been such ever since—all the result of a power struggle between two men.
He was a poor governor in general and was fired and replaced by the Dutch East India Company which was a happy occurrence for the colonists. The company was a money making institution and depended on colonists who would farm, trade and manufacture. If they were unhappy, the company would not profit. They would not have minded a tyrant if he could produce profits as some did in the Dutch East Indies, but Kieft was a loser on all counts.
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
