Oliver Cromwell Quotes

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• Necessity has no law.
• Nature can do more than physicians
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.
• WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
• 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…
• On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
• A man-of-war is the best ambassador.
• 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…
• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
• Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
• Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and…
• For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
• Those who stop being better stop being good.
• Make the iron hot by striking it.
• There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man
• 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…
• 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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