Henry IV

“I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.”

“I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.”

“It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.”

“I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.”

“Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.”

“Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.”