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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.

— Oliver Cromwell

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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.

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