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The Sea, As Well As The Air, Is A Free And Common Thing To All; And A Particular Nation Cannot Pretend To Have The Right To The Exclusion Of All Others, Without Violating The Rights Of Nature And Public Usage.

-Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I

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The Sea, As Well As The Air, Is A Free And Common Thing To All; And A Particular Nation Cannot Pretend To Have The Right To The Exclusion Of All Others, Without Violating The Rights Of Nature And Public Usage.

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I Am No Lover Of Pompous Title, But Only Desire That My Name May Be Recorded In A Line Or Two, Which Shall Briefly Express My Name, My Virginity, The Years Of My Reign, The Reformation Of Religion Under It, And My Preservation Of Peace.

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Be Of Good Cheer, For You Will Never Want, For The Bullet Was Meant For Me, Though It Hit You.

I Grieve And Dare Not Show My Discontent, I Love And Yet Am Forced To Seem To Hate, I Do, Yet Dare Not Say I Ever Meant, I Seem Stark Mute But Inwardly Do Prate. I Am And Not, I Freeze And Yet Am Burned, Since From Myself Another Self I Turned. My Care Is Like My Shadow In The Sun, Follows Me Flying, Flies When I Pursue It, Stands And Lies By Me, Doth What I Have Done.

One Man With A Head On His Shoulders Is Worth A Dozen Without.

There Is Only One Christ, Jesus, One Faith. All Else Is A Dispute Over Trifles.

I Know I Have The Body Of A Weak And Feeble Woman, But I Have The Heart And Stomach Of A King, And Of A King Of England Too.

I Would Not Open Windows Into Men's Souls.

We Princes Are Set As It Were Upon Stages, In The Sight And View Of All The World. The Least Spot Is Soon Spied In Our Garments, A Blemish Quickly Noticed In Our Doings.

I Am More Afraid Of Making A Fault In My Latin Than Of The Kings Of Spain, France, Scotland, The Whole House Of Guise, And All Of Their Confederates.

I Have Already Joined Myself In Marriage To A Husband, Namely The Kingdom Of England.

To Be A King And Wear A Crown Is A Thing More Glorious To Them That See It Than It Is Pleasant To Them That Bear It.

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My Loving People, We Have Been Persuaded By Some That Are Careful Of Our Safety, To Take Heed How We Commit Ourself To Armed Multitudes For Fear Of Treachery; But I Assure You, I Do Not Desire To Live To Distrust My Faithful And Loving People. I Know I Have The Body But Of A Weak And Feeble Woman, But I Have The Heart And Stomach Of A King, And Of A King Of England Too, And Think Foul Scorn That Parma Or Spain, Or Any Prince Of Europe Should Dare To Invade The Borders Of My Realm.

Let The Good Service Of Well-deservers Be Never Rewarded With Loss. Let Their Thanks Be Such As May Encourage More Strivers For The Like.

The Name Of A Successor Is Like The Tolling Of My Own Death-bell!

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God Forgive You, But I Never Can.

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If We Still Advise We Shall Never Do.

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I Have Seen Many A Man Turn His Gold Into Smoke, But You Are The First Who Has Turned Smoke Into Gold.

A Clear And Innocent Conscience Fears Nothing.

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.

[to Edward De Vere, Earl Of Oxford, On His Return From Self-imposed Exile, Occasioned By The Embarrassing Flatulence He Had Experienced In The Presence Of The Queen:] My Lord, I Had Forgot The Fart.

There Is Small Disproportion Betwixt A Fool Who Useth Not Wit Because He Hath It Not And Him That Useth It Not When It Should Avail Him.

There Is A Close Tie Of Affection Between Sovereigns And Their Subjects; And As Chaste Wives Should Have No Eyes But For Their Husbands, So Faithful Liegemen Should Keep Their Regards At Home And Not Look After Foreign Crowns. For My Part I Like Not For My Sheep To Wear A Stranger's Mark Nor To Dance After A Foreigner's Whistle.

Prosperity Provideth, But Adversity Proveth Friends.

I Would Gladly Chastise Those Who Represent Things As Different From What They Are. Those Who Steal Property Or Make Counterfeit Money Are Punished, And Those Ought To Be Still More Severely Dealt With Who Steal Away Or Falsify The Good Name Of A Prince.

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.

He Who Placed Me In This Seat Will Keep Me Here.

It Is A Natural Virtue Incident To Our Sex To Be Pitiful Of Those That Are Afflicted.

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Had I Been Crested, Not Cloven, My Lords, You Had Not Treated Me Thus.

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There Is No Marvel In A Woman Learning To Speak, But There Would Be In Teaching Her To Hold Her Tongue

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Though The Sex To Which I Belong Is Considered Weak You Will Nevertheless Find Me A Rock That Bends To No Wind.

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I Observe And Remain Silent.

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Mr. Doctor, That Loose Gown Becomes You So Well I Wonder Your Notions Should Be So Narrow.

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Brass Shines As Fair To The Ignorant As Gold To The Goldsmiths.

Affection! Affection Is False.

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[i]n The End This Shall Be For Me Sufficient, That A Marble Stone Shall Declare That A Queen, Having Reigned Such A Time, Lived And Died A Virgin.

Those Who Appear The Most Sanctified Are The Worst

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[to Parliament, When It Urged Her To Marry And Settle The Succession:] You Attend To Your Own Duties And I'll Perform Mine.

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All My Possessions For A Moment Of Time.

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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. Therefore I Have Cause To Wish Nothing More Than To Content The Subject And That Is A Duty Which I Owe. Neither Do I Desire To Live Longer Days Than I May See Your Prosperity And That Is My Only Desire.

Let Tyrants Fear, I Have Always So Behaved Myself That, Under God, I Have Placed My Chiefest Strength And Safeguard In The Loyal Hearts And Good-will Of My Subjects.

God Has Given Such Brave Soldiers To This Crown That, If They Do Not Frighten Our Neighbours, At Least They Prevent Us From Being Frightened By Them.

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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.

If Thy Heart Fails Thee, Climb Not At All.

As For Me, I See No Such Great Cause Why I Should Either Be Fond To Live Or Fear To Die. I Have Had Good Experience Of This World, And I Know What It Is To Be A Subject And What To Be A Sovereign. Good Neighbours I Have Had, And I Have Met With Bad: And In Trust I Have Found Treason.

There Is One Thing Higher Than Royalty: And That Is Religion, Which Causes Us To Leave The World, And Seek God.

[when Opposed By Leaders Of Her Council:] I Will Make You Shorter By The Head!

I May Not Be A Lion,but I Am Lions Cub And I Have Lion's Heart

Chastity Is The Ermine Of Woman's Soul.

I Regret The Unhappiness Of Princes Who Are Slaves To Forms And Fettered By Caution.

Have A Care Over My People. You Have My People--do You That Which I Ought To Do. They Are My People.... See Unto Them--see Unto Them, For They Are My Charge.... I Care Not For Myself; My Life Is Not Dear To Me. My Care Is For My People. I Pray God, Whoever Succeedeth Me, Be As Careful Of Them As I Am.

If Our Web Be Framed With Rotten Handles, When Our Loom Is Well Nigh Done, Our Work Is New To Begin. God Send The Weaver True Prentices Again, And Let Them Be Denizens.

If There Were Two Princes In Christendom Who Had Good Will And Courage, It Would Be Very Easy To Reconcile The Religious Difficulties; There Is Only One Jesus Christ And One Faith, And All The Rest Is A Dispute Over Trifles.

Who Seeketh Two Strings To One Bow, They May Shoot Strong, But Never Straight.

I Shall Lend Credit To Nothing Against My People Which Parents Would Not Believe Against Their Own Children.

For, What Is A Family Without A Steward, A Ship Without A Pilot, A Flock Without A Shepherd, A Body Without A Head, The Same, I Think, Is A Kingdom Without The Health And Safety Of A Good Monarch.

When I Was Fair And Young, And Favor Graced Me, Of Many Was I Sought, Their Mistress For To Be; But I Did Scorn Them All, And Answered Them Therefore, "go, Go, Go Seek Some Otherwhere! Importune Me No More!

The Word Must Is Not To Be Used To Princes.

I Have No Desire To Make Windows Into Men's Souls.

And Therefore I Am Come Amongst You At This Time, Not As For My Recreation Or Sport, But Being Resolved, In The Midst And Heat Of The Battle, To Live Or Die Amongst You All; To Lay Down, For My God, And For My Kingdom, And For My People, My Honour And My Blood, Even The Dust. I Know I Have But The Body Of A Weak And Feeble Woman; But I Have The Heart Of A King, And Of A King Of England, Too.

The Past Cannot Be Cured.

Although My Royal Rank Causes Me To Doubt Whether My Kingdom Is Not More Sought After Than Myself, Yet I Understand That You Havefound Other Graces In Me.

The End Crowneth The Work.

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.

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.

The Doubt Of Future Foes Exiles My Present Joy.

Answer On Being Asked Her Opinion Of Christ's Presence In The Sacrament. 'twas God The Word That Spake It, He Took The Bread And Brake It; And What The Word Did Make It That I Believe, And Take It.

I Pluck Up The Good Lissome Herbs Of Sentences By Pruning, Eat Them By Reading, Digest Them By Musing, And Lay Them Up At Length In The High Seat Of Memory.

I Have The Heart Of A Man, Not A Woman, And I Am Not Afraid Of Anything.

I Find That I Sent Wolves Not Shepherds To Govern Ireland, For They Have Left Me Nothing But Ashes And Carcasses To Reign Over!

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