Cromwell Quote by Stephen Colbert

“As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather’s pet monkey.”

— John Lloyd

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

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

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

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

“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