Oliver Cromwell Quotes

• My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

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• Take away that fool’s bauble—the Mace.

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• You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

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• 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 all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

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• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

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• Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

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• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

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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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• We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

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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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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

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• Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

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• Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

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• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

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• Nature can do more than physicians.

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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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• rather than to have undertaken this government

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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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• He who stops being better stops being good.

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Birth:	25th April, 1599
Death:	3rd September, 1658
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Soldier

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