Quotes by Cromwell, Oliver

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

Cromwell, Oliver on deception
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"No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes."

Cromwell, Oliver on getting ahead   

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

Cromwell, Oliver on history and historians   

"A few honest men are better than numbers."

Cromwell, Oliver on honesty   

"Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged."

Cromwell, Oliver on approval   

"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."

Cromwell, Oliver on army and navy   

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

Cromwell, Oliver on mistakes   

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"Necessity has no law."

Cromwell, Oliver on necessity   

"Make the iron hot by striking it."

Cromwell, Oliver on opportunity   

"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!"

Cromwell, Oliver on parliament   

"Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it."

Cromwell, Oliver on portraits   

"The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies."

Cromwell, Oliver on public office   

"He who stops being better stops being good."

Cromwell, Oliver on self-improvement
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"Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry."

Cromwell, Oliver on trust
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"He [Oliver Cromwell] in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good; and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away. "

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