I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

- William The Silent

Farewell count without a head

- William The Silent

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…

- William The Silent

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 sid…

- William The Silent

I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.

- 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…

- William The Silent

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 …

- William The Silent