My God, my God, have mercy on me, and on my poor people!
William the Silent
In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe.. To see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.
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We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.
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I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.
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The end will show the whole truth.
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Do not kill him! I forgive him my death.
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They stormed Oudewater, and delivered it over to all imaginable cruelties, sparing neither sex nor age.
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It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.
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I will say no more, than that I will act as I shall answer hereafter to God and to man.
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My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.
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One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.
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All in the world I have is yours; Next to God, you are the one I love best, and if I did not know that your love for me is the same, I could not be so happy as I am: May God give us both the grace to live always in this affection without any guile.
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It would be the greatest disaster which could befall our House if any untoward accident befall you, which may God avert! Do not hesitate to open letters addressed to me. Your love for me and the absolute confidence between us make me feel that I cannot have any secrets from you.
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You are staking your own head by trusting the King. Never will I so stake mine, for he has deceived me too often. His favourite maxim is, haereticis non est servanda fides. I am now bald and Calvinist and in that faith will I die.
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Would not the German princes at least intercede with Philip? Would they hinder the passage of the royal mercenaries from Germany? Saxony, Hesse, Wurtemburg, and the rest offer excellent advice, to beware of Philip, not to drive him to extremity, to avoid outrages.
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