"Protect your subjects from me? I seek merely to bring peaceful co-existence between your Changelings with my Ponies, and perhaps with the rest of the world. You on the other hoof had only been constantly oppressing your people, pushing them to war against us and other realms; you made them more feared and hated in the eyes of other peoples, and more fearful and hateful of other peoples themselves, with each passing day.



You yourself said that Equestria had more love than any other realm you have ever conquered. That is not only because I had ruled with grace and benevolence; it is because I had also taught them grace and benevolence, and told them to spread it across the land.



You truly seek to protect your subjects? To bring them prosperity? To give them more love than they could ever imagine? Then rule with TRUE love, as I had, and teach your subjects to share that love with the world. Don't treat it as just a resource for harvest, to be taken through conquest and tyranny.



Failing that, then the only thing you could do... is to REMOVE YOURSELF FROM POWER, and let another who is worthy to lead your people; because the greatest threat to your subjects now... is yourself."



--- Princess Celestia, confronting Queen Chrysalis.