Oliver Cromwell Quotes - Page 2

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• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Cheer, Iron, Political

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• I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Shining, Crowds, Resolution

  Oliver Cromwell (1904). “The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell”

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• Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Fear God

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• In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

  Oliver Cromwell

  Kings, Support, Trials

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• Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Nature, Physicians, Environment

  "Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons, Richard and Henry".

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Weed, Real, Shadow

  Oliver Cromwell (1860). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition with Elucidations”, p.142

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• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Kings, Men, Design

  Oliver Cromwell (1970). “The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: 1599-1649”

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Opinion, States

  1644 Said before the Battle of Marston Moor, 2 Jul.

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• Those who stop being better stop being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Be Good

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• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Dark, Providence, Walks

  Oliver Cromwell (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches: including the supplement to the first edition; with elucidations”, p.303

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Dark, Men, Path

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Oliver Cromwell (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.64, Cambridge University Press

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• My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Desire, Haste, Gone

  1658 Last words. Quoted in John Morley Oliver Cromwell (1900), bk.5, ch.10.

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• For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Liberty, Conscience

  Oliver Cromwell (1810). “Cromwelliana: A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was Engaged, from the Year 1642 to His Death 1658, with a Continuation of Other Transactions To the Restoration”, p.68

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• On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Military, Soldier, Citizens

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Advice, Constitution

  "Diary of Thomas Burton Esq: Volume 2, April 1657 - February 1658". Book by Thomas Burton, www.british-history.ac.uk. 1828.

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Skills, Desire

  Quoted in HoraceWalpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1763). Usually misquoted as "warts and all."

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• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Knows

  Oliver Cromwell, Wilbur Cortez Abbott (1989). “The writings and speeches of Oliver Cromwell”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Fighting, Men

  Oliver Cromwell (18??). “Oliver Cromwell's letters & speeches: with elucidations”

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Sheep, Government, Sides

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• THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.

  Oliver Cromwell

  People, Would Be, Noisy

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• My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Prayer, Giving, Office

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• Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Law, Break

  Speech to Parliament, 12 September 1654, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (1845)

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• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Gentleman, Obscurity, Height

  Oliver Cromwell (1860). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition with Elucidations”, p.110

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, May, Honest

  Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament, September 12, 1654.

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• 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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Heart, Men, People

  Oliver Cromwell (1901). “Speeches, 1644-1658”

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