Oliver Cromwell quotes

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. (Oliver Cromwell)
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. View quote
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. View quote
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God made them as stubble to our swords. View quote
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No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes. View quote
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A few honest men are better than numbers. View quote
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Those who stop being better stop being good. View quote
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. View quote
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. View quote
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We are Englishmen; that is one good fact. View quote
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Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. (Oliver Cromwell)
Necessity has no law. View quote
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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. View quote
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We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted. View quote
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. View quote
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Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. View quote
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Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. View quote
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That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground. View quote
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We will cut off his (the king's) head with the crown on it. View quote
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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein. View quote
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I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences... (Oliver Cromwell)
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof. View quote
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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go. View quote
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Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole. View quote
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It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone. View quote
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