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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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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.
If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it – that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself.
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a Government as this is.
Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
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A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
Attributed Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays (1841)
Being comes before well-being.
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