As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

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

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

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

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.

I would not open windows into men's souls.