"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

January 1, 1970

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Writing to his brother John after an unsuccessful campaign, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 64