"I would rather be dead than any other than myself."

"I will make a difference between the obedient and the disobedient."

"I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat, I were able to liv…"

"When princes err, the people are punished."

"I have been ever averse to any one's dictating to me in things which concern myself."