"I know the least of any prince that ever wore a crown."

"I am not so much wedded to my will but that I can be content to follow the counsel of my friends."

"There is no prince in the world that governs a people more loving, more faithful, or more obedient than I do."

"It is not my desire to live or reign longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this royal seat, yet you ne…"

"There is no prince in the world who has such subjects as I have, and I will not change them for any other, not even for the King of Spain's Indies."