I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
– Oliver Cromwell
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
It is not fit that you should sit here any longer!
– Oliver Cromwell
Necessity has no law.
– Oliver Cromwell
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
– Oliver Cromwell
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
– Oliver Cromwell
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
– Oliver Cromwell
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
Nature can do more than physicians.
– Oliver Cromwell
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
– Oliver Cromwell
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.