Oliver Cromwell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.”
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“He who stops being better stops being good.”
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“The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.”
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“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
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“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 resolution for foes to tremble at.”
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“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.”
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“Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.”
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“What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.”
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“A few honest men are better than numbers.”
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“We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.”
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“A mattoid is a miscreant who seeks to elevate himself by destroying society. Examples include the Rothschilds, David Rockefeller, Franklin Roosevelt, Meyer Lansky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Hamilton, and Josef Stalin. Often mattoids are of high intelligence, tainted geniuses, despite their flawed character and lack of any morality.”
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“There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.”
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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 peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed”
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“I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.”
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“WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.”
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“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 counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.”
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“For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.”
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“Those who stop being better stop being good.”
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“On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.”
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“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.”
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“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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“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.”
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“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”
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“Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.”
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“I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.”
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“THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.”
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