“As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather’s pet monkey.” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“The most spectacular-and embittering-of the British suppressions of the Irish was Oliver Cromwell's punitive expedition of 1649,” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Oliver Cromwell is credited with having given the following speech when he dissolved Parliament on 20th April 1653: It is high time… — David Craig Copy Share Image
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Castine predates the Plymouth Colony by 7 years and, being one of the oldest settlements in America, has a rich history. Founded… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
“When he was twenty-three years old, he (George Fox) saw the inner light in a vision. For him it symbolized the spirit… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
I have seen in this revolution a circular motion of the sovereign power through two usurpers, father and son, to the late… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“here it was in black and white from the First Lord of the Admiralty... again! King George V had already asked his… — Iain Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
“And don’t call me ‘my lord.’ That’s what servants do. You’re my fiancée, remember?” He sounded irritated. “I’ll call you Maria, and… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“The solution to the economic and political failure of nations today is to transform their extractive institutions toward inclusive ones. The vicious… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“It is a bad year for kings,” said Gondy, shaking his head; “look at England, madame.” “Yes; but fortunately we have no… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Without Oliver Cromwell there might well have not been a Parliament to which Our Sovereign Lady might make her gracious address.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I’m not a man, I can’t earn a living, buy new things for my family. I have acne and a small peter.… — Harold Norse Copy Share Image
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
