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1599–1658 England
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, soldier, and revolutionary responsible for the overthrow of the monarchy, temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth, and assuming rule as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. After he died, his son Richard Cromwell took this position, until King Charles II was crowned king.
Also known as: Cromwell, Cromwell, Oliver
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We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
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.
This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.
Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.
Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.
And let God be judge between you and me.
Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.
Speech to the Army Council (1654)
I find this only good, to love the Lord and his poor despised people, to do for them and to be ready to suffer with them.
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.
I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
Speech to Parliament (1655)
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