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It was the only treaty made by the settlers with the Indians that was never sworn to, and the only one that was never broken.
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Voltaire, contrasting Penn's treaty with the Delaware (Leni Lenape) Indians, with most others that had been made in the colonization of America. (citation needed)
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Variant translation: No oaths, no seals, no official mummeries were used; the treaty was ratified on both sides with a yea, yea — the only one, says Voltaire, that the world has known, never sworn to and never broken.
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As quoted in William Penn : An Historical Biography (1851) by William Hepworth Dixon

 

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