To be a Child of God means to live in constant danger
—Jakob de Wever
Fictitious Anabaptist leader of Leyden
I have come to make my grave in this land.
—Willem van Oranje’s words as he left Dillenburg to begin his final assault on the Duke of Alva and his Spanish troops (1572).
Leyden saved is Holland saved!
—Watchword of the Siege of Leyden