Henry IV of England

"King Henry the Fourth, who was the deposer of King Richard, was the first of all English kings that began the unmerciful burning of Christ’s saints for standing against the pope."

"I would maintain that in politics Henry was not a man of constitutional principle at all but an opportunist and a politique."

"[H]e seems to us a man whose life was embittered by the knowledge that he had taken on himself a task for which he was unequal, whose conscience, ill-informed as it may have been, had soured him, and who felt that the judgments of men, at least, would deal hardly with him when he was dead."