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• Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by… — Patrick Henry
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• Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama
• Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some… — Thomas Gray
• Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ... — William Shakespeare
• When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts… — Mark Steyn
• Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin. — Vladimir Putin
• After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell. — Antonia Fraser
• The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned out to… — Andre Braugher
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