Oliver Cromwell Quotes

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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!

  Oliver Cromwell

  God, Done With You, Names

  Remarks to Rump Parliament, 20 Apr. 1653. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations describes this as "oral tradition." BulstrodeWhitlocke, Memorials of the English Affairs (1682), describes Cromwell as telling the House that "they has sate long enough, unles they had done more good."

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• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

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  Mistake, Science, Thinking

  Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10

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• He who stops being better stops being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Writing

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• Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

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  Believe, Political, Catholic

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• I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

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  I Have Learned, Fear God, Ifs

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• Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Faith, Evil, Dry

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• Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

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  Trust, Cheer, Shouting

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• Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Hard Work, Trust In God, Bowels

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• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Education, Truth, Honesty

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

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  Inspirational, Integrity, Hype

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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• Necessity has no law.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Law

  Christopher Columbus, Robert Venables, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Modyford (Sir.), Nevil (of Jamaica.) (1800). “Interesting tracts, relating to the island of Jamaica: consisting of curious state-papers, councils of war, letters, petitions, narratives, &c. &c., which throw great light on the history of that island, from its conquest down to the year 1702”, p.44

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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.

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  Rights, Government, People

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Letters and Speeches”, p.84

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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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Love, Military, Army

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

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  Inspirational, Men, Doe

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• Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

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  People, Satisfaction, Lord

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• He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.

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  Be Good, Cease

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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.

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  Country, Wine, Men

  Oliver Cromwell (1820). “Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry”, p.561

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• Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

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  Children, Men, Royalty

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• A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

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  Military, War, Men

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• Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!

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  Hands, Lord

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• Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.

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  Wise, Men, Talking

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• There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

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  Men, Water, Tree

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• Make the iron hot by striking it.

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  Inspirational, Iron, Desire

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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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  God, Historian, Shaking

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• It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according to the flesh, and things, are lighter than vanity. I find this only good, to love the Lord and his poor despised people, to do for them and to be ready to suffer with them....and he that is found worthy of this hath obtained great favour from the Lord; and he that is established in this shall ( being conformed to Christ and the rest of the Body) participate in the glory of a resurrection which will answer all.

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  Blessed, Men, Vanity

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.244

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