You may assure His Holiness, that rather than suffer the least damage to religion and the service of God, I would lose all my states and an hundred lives, if I had them; for I do not propose nor desire to be the ruler of heretics.
— Philip II of Spain Early Modern

Spanish Empire ruler

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Context

In a letter to his ambassador in Rome.

Date / Period

1566

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-II-king-of-Spain

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