We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.
William to his brother John on Williams 2nd Invasion of the Netherlands, 1572, as quoted in William the Silent (1902) by Frederic Harrison, p. 62.