Elizabeth I

“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”

“My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.”

“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.”

“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”

“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.”

“I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.”

“There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.”

“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”

“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.”