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.

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

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

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.