"I would have been glad to have lived……" — Oliver Cromwell
"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."
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40 Quotes by Oliver Cromwell
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Necessity has no law.
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Nature can do more than physicians
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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done…
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter…
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron…
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THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.
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WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL…
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I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to,…
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On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
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A man-of-war is the best ambassador.
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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…
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I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
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