Peter Stuyvesant Quotes
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.
Stuyvesant, Peter. "Letter to the Directors of the West India Company." Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, edited by E. B. O'Callaghan, vol. 14, Weed, Parsons and Company, 1883, p. 156.
She was sentenced to death for the bombing of public facilities but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. She was released after independence. She raised the moral issue of torture which was very commonly used by the French then, but she was silent about the morality of exploding bombs and killing civilians. Women however did not fare very well in the independent, post revolution Algeria—see {36994} and {36995}.
The Daneish had conquered Northern England. The entire history—manuscript shown in the graphic—was written in rhymed couplets.
In the wake of the Tonkin Gulf incident, the United States bombed and destroyed North Vietnam naval installations:
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
For a later version of this notion see Albert of Saxe-Coburg {592978}
This is an important historical quotation because it suggests some of the thinking, irrational though it may have been, that led many post war Germans onto an irrational and self defeating course of action. Emotional factors such as dignity, fairness, and honor can be significant drivers of irrational and self destructive action. Nazi Germany was a classic example. Many leading Germans thought the Treaty of Versailles that was imposed on them at the end of the First World War was too harsh and unfair. Many from the countries victimized by the German military aggression also thought the treaty unfair as it did not treat Germany harsh enough.
The eighty years refer to the time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire which is looked upon by many Muslims as a dual disaster: The West destroying the last Muslim military geopolitical state and the rise of modern Turkey as a secular state.
This was his reaction when he was criticized for encouraging over 1000 extrajudicial murders of accused drug addicts and drug dealers with no trial at all and no due process.
Peter Stuyvesant 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 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 (e.g. Stuyvesant High School, Stuyvesant Town, Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, etc.).
