"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
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"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
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"No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment."
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"For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch."
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"I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace."
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"There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him."
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"I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood."
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"Young heads take example of the ancient"
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"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves."
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"God forgive you, but I never can."
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"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children."
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"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
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"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire."
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"It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted."
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"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word."
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"Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus."
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"If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles."
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"[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low."
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"There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle."
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"The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!"
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