As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his…

From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war…

— Linda Colley

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers.…

— Garry Wills

“Without Oliver Cromwell there might well have not been a Parliament to which Our Sovereign Lady might make her gracious address.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum!”

— Stephen Colbert

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England…

— Simon Schama

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell…

— Steven Morrissey

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that…

— Robertson Davies

The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of…

— Edward Jenks

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Castine predates the Plymouth Colony by 7 years and, being one of the oldest settlements in America, has a rich history. Founded during the…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“Oliver Cromwell is credited with having given the following speech when he dissolved Parliament on 20th April 1653: It is high time for me…

— David Craig

“It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp…

— Jacob Bronowski

“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it has not…

— G.K. Chesterton

“p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered his ambitions,…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“The most spectacular-and embittering-of the British suppressions of the Irish was Oliver Cromwell's punitive expedition of 1649,”

— Thomas Sowell