\u201cI 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\u2019s interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speech to the first Parliament of the Protectorate, Sept, 1654.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Oliver Cromwell on Parliament\u2019s passing of the revolutionary grand remonstrance, quoted in the Earl of Clarendon, a history of the rebellion. The English Civil wWr.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Letter from Cromwell to Sir William Spring. Sept. 1643.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTruly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the lord, in this great victory given us.\u201d<\/p>\n Oliver Cromwell on the Battle of Marston Moor 1644.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of Parliament, for which we unaminously 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Oliver Cromwell to Colonal Valentine Walton. 5 or 6 September 1644.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are\u201d.<\/p>\n Cromwell before the battle of Naseby. 1645.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration. It\u2019s granted the king has broken his trust, yet you are fearful to declare you will make no further addresses. …..look on the people you represent, and break not your trust, and expose not the honest party of your kingdom, who have bled for you, and suffer not misery to fall upon them for want of courage and resolution in you, else the honest people may take such courses as nature dictates to them.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell\u2019s speech in the commons during the debate which preceeded the \u201cvote of no addresses\u201d, recorded in the diary of John Boys, MM for Kent.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSince providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their councels.”<\/p>\n Cromwell on the trial of King Charles I. Dec. 1648.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it .\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell to one of the judges at the trial of King Charles I.1648.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cCruel necessity\u201d.<\/p>\n Cromwell on the execution of King Charles I. Jan 1649. Oxford dictionary of quotations.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood….\u201d<\/p>\n Oliver Cromwell after the storming of Drogheda. 1649.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.\u201d<\/p>\n On himself, letter to Richard Mayor, July 1650.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.\u201d<\/p>\n In a letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. 1650.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.\u201d<\/p>\n On himself, repudiating a royal debt, August 1651.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n Letter. 1651.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTake away that fool\u2019s bauble, the mace\u201d<\/p>\n Oliver Cromwell speech dismissing the rump Parliament. April 1653.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I went there, I did not think to have done this. But perceiving the spirit of God so strong upon me, I would not consult flesh and blood.\u201d<\/p>\n On himself, on his forcible dissolution of Parliament in April 1653, in James Heath, flagellum.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNo one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell on personal fortunes.<\/em><\/p>\n You are as like the forming of God as ever people were…you are at the edge of promises and prophecies.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell addressing the barebones Parliament. July 1653<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou have been sat to 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!.\u201d<\/p>\n Addressing the rump Parliament. April 1653.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell referring to a cheering crowd.1654.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWeeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell\u2019s speech dissolving the first protectoral Parliament.<\/p>\n \u201cGod has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell to the army council. 1654.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere are some things in this establishment that are fundamental….about which I shall deal plainly with you…the government by a single person and a Parliament is a fundamental…and..though I may seem to plead for myself,yet I do not:no, nor can any reasonable man say it..i plead for this nation, and all the honest men therin..\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell to the first Protectorate Parliament, 12 September 1654.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNecessity hath no law.\u201d<\/p>\n Speech to Parliament, Sept. 1654.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell in a speech to the first Protectorate Parliament, 12 September 1654.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in it\u2019s just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences….\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell to the first Protectorate Parliament, 22 January 1655.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201c(Kingship) is not so interwoven in in the laws…truly though the kingship be not a mere title but a name of office that runs through the whole of the law….as such a title hath been fixed, so it may be unfixed…\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell to the representatives of the second Protectorate Parliament, 13 April 1657.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou drew me here to accept the place I now stand in. There is ne\u2019er a man within these walls that can say, sir, you sought it, nay, not a man nor woman treading upon English ground.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell\u2019s speech to Parliament, 4 February 1658.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.\u201d<\/p>\n In a letter, 1658.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNot what they want but what is good for them.\u201d<\/p>\n Remark by Oliver Cromwell. Ibid.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me; otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell on having his portrait painted, in Horace Walpole, anecdotes of painting. The Oxford dictionary of quotations.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMy design is to make what haste I can to be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n Cromwell\u2019s last words; in Cromwell, by John Morely.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. 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