"Hope, Faith, and Love were thought the most appropriate symbols for the man [Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor] who had invented the edicts [condemning Protestantism], introduced the inquisition, and whose last words, inscribed by a hand already trembling with death, had adjured his son, by his love, allegiance, and hope of salvation, to deal to all heretics, the extreme rigor of the law, 'without respect of persons and without regard to any plea in their favor.'"

-John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Vol. 1