"My purpose is unalterable.

The tempest that clears away the pestilence destroys many innocent lives, but it is not the less wholesome on that account.
Our unhappy land is choked with the pestilence of heresy, and must be freed from it, cost what it will, and suffer who may.

The wrongs of the English Catholics imperatively demand redress; and, since it is denied us, we must take it.

Oppression can go no farther; nor endurance hold out longer.

If this blow be not struck we shall have no longer a religion.