George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore Quotes

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Being bound for a long Journey to a Place which I have had a long Desire to visit, and have now the Opportunity and Leave to do: It is Newfoundland I mean, which imports me more than in Curiosity only to see; for I must either go and settle it in a better Order than it is, or else give it over, and lose all the Charges I have been at hitherto for other Men to build their Fortunes upon. And I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

I intend shortly, God willing, a journey for Newfoundland to visit a plantation which I began there some few years since.

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

Thus your Lordship sees that we Papists want not Charity towards you Protestants, whatsoever the less understanding Part of the World think of us.

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

Born: 1578

Died: April 15, 1632 (aged 54)

Bio: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore was an English politician and colonizer. He achieved domestic political success as a Member of Parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I.

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