Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.
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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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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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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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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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We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
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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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I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
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Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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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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Necessity has no law.
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Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.
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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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Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
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In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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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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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.