I know that Ihavethe bodyof a weak and feeble woman, but I havetheheart and stomach of a kingöand a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

-Elizabeth I
   Address at Tilbury on the approach of the Spanish Armada.

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade.

-Gibbon, Edward
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.68.