4 Elizabeth I of England Quotes on Leadership

Elizabeth I of England quotes on leadership

3. Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.

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4. 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 endued 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.

13. My loving people,

19. I will have one mistress here, and no master! No man shall rule over me