Thomas Kyd Quotes
Where words prevail not, violence prevails.
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. Edited by Philip Edwards, Methuen, 1959, p. 33.
The highest court in New York.
A variant of this quotation was used by Admiral of the German Navy. See {609658}.
In this case, he was referring to the situation with the Barbary Pirates who had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. Jefferson favored and authorized war—a naval attack which for many reasons the European nations had not done (they just paid the tribute). Then a peace treaty was finally signed—the first American Treaty.
Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
