Elizabeth I

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

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.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.