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“Elizabeth's whole style of rule was pragmatic and free from preconceptions. It was not that she had no strategic aims, but they were broad and simple. God had entrusted her with three things: a rea...”
“In no issue of foreign policy could her prevarication and indecisiveness be said to have led to disastrous consequences for her country. On the international stage there was no better survivor. At ...”
“Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.”
“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.”
“If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.”
“Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.”
“Only danger is real, and difficulty. Yet we live to make our lives safe - and those of others. (..) I will fight my own people to keep them from fighting, for as long as can be. Never fight, until ...”
“It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.”
