Zealand, Holland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Friesland as being provinces which enjoyed the most important privileges, and which, moreover, watched over them with the greatest jealousy, were never asked for their opinion.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 03 by Friedrich Schiller

[at the religious Conference in 1529],” Luther once remarked, “Zwingli always spoke in Greek”; he declared he had studied the Greek Testament for thirteen years; “Oh, no, something more is needed than the mere reading of the Testament, but these people [532] are blinded by ambition”; that was why Zwingli had used Greek and Hebrew when preaching at Marburg.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar