English - Royalty | September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603
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.
Elizabeth I
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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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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.
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He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.
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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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