Top 61 Quotes About Oliver Cromwell
#1. 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 and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.
Steven Morrissey
#2. Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?
Robertson Davies
#3. I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.
Marilynne Robinson
#4. The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.
Simon Schama
#5. Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.
Mitchell Symons
#6. It is a bad year for kings," said Gondy, shaking his head; "look at England, madame."
"Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France," replied the Queen.
"Who knows?" said Gondy; "such men are like thunderbolts - one recognized them only when they have struck.
Alexandre Dumas
#7. If these the Times, then this must be the Man.
[Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]
Andrew Marvell
#8. Thamsine Granville had not begun the day with the intention of killing Oliver Cromwell.
Alison Stuart
#9. I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell
#10. Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
Oliver Cromwell
#11. A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell
#14. I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
Oliver Cromwell
#15. The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell
#17. On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
Oliver Cromwell
#18. Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell
#19. It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
Oliver Goldsmith
#20. I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.
Oliver Cromwell
#21. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
#22. Does a man speak foolishly?
suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?
stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?
rejoice in the truth.
Oliver Cromwell
#25. Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you're only looking for a lucky break.
Oliver Cromwell
#26. For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
Oliver Cromwell
#27. Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.
Oliver Cromwell
#28. Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third - ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] - may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick Henry
#30. Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell
#31. My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.
Oliver Cromwell
#32. What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell
#34. Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.
Oliver Cromwell
#37. Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
Oliver Cromwell
#38. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
#39. You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Oliver Cromwell
#42. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
#45. That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
Oliver Cromwell
#46. Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!
Oliver Cromwell
#48. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell
#49. There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man
Oliver Cromwell
#51. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
#52. WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
Oliver Cromwell
#53. No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell
#55. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
#56. If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
Oliver Cromwell
#57. 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
Oliver Cromwell
#58. THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.
Oliver Cromwell
#59. Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
#60. A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.
Oliver Cromwell
#61. I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences ...
Oliver Cromwell
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