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- Oliver Cromwell: Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
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Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860. -
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
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English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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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.
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Make the iron hot by striking it.
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly 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.
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Necessity has no law.
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No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
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Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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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!
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