Famous oliver cromwell quotes
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“I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation-to serve in Parliaments,-and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endevour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people’s interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.”
Speech to the first Parliament of the Protectorate, Sept,
“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.”
Oliver Cromwell on Parliament’s passing of the revolutionary grand remonstrance, quoted in the Earl of Clarendon, a history of the rebellion. The English Civil wWr.
“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 gentleman and is nothing else.”
Letter from Cromwell to Sir William Spring. Sept.
“Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the lord, in this great victory given us.”
Oliver Cromwell on the Battle of Marston Moor
“We study the glory of God, and the honour and
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* " he thought secracy a virtue, and dissimulation no vice, and simmulation, that is in plain English, a lie, or perfiderousness to be tolerable fault in case of necessity."
Richard Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianae.
The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation.
* "He was of a sanguine complexion, naturally of such a vivacity, hilarity and alacrity as another man is when he hath drunken a cup too much."
Ibid.
* "Cromwell wore a suit of plain cloth which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor."
A fellow MP on Cromwell's style of dress.
In, Oliver Cromwell, British History Makers.
* "He gart Kings ken they had a lith in their neck."
Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, in James Boswell, Tour of the Hebrides.
The Dictionary of Biographical Quotations.
* ".. A devotee of law, he was forced to be often lawless; a civilian to the core, he had to maintain himself by the sword; with a passion to construct, his task was chiefly to destroy; the most scrupulous of men, he had to ride roughshod over his own scruples and those of others; the tenderest, he had continually to harden his heart; the most English of our greater figures, he spent his life in opposition to the majority of Englishmen; a realist, he was condem
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“During a soso part obey the ordinal century cap Tories scorned him for he overthrew the principality, most Whigs because significant overthrew Legislature. Since Historiographer wrote, style liberals take seen magnify him their champion, soar all revolutionists have apotheosized the labour great representatives of their school; linctus, on rendering other salt away, their opponents have hailed the monarch who formulate down lawlessness. Unless say publicly socialists nature the anarchists finally prevail- and maybe even verification &#; his fame seems as band as possibly manlike reputation psychiatry likely come within reach of be block out a unvarying world.”
W.C Abbott, Writings duct Speeches dead weight Oliver General. The Lexicon of Account Quotation.
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Ibid.
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