Oliver Cromwell

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

— Oliver Cromwell

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.

— Oliver Cromwell

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

— Oliver Cromwell

No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.

— Oliver Cromwell

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

— Oliver Cromwell

A few honest men are better than numbers.

— Oliver Cromwell

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

— Oliver Cromwell

Necessity has no law.

— Oliver Cromwell

Make the iron hot by striking it.

— Oliver Cromwell

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!

— Oliver Cromwell

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.

— Oliver Cromwell

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

— Oliver Cromwell

He who stops being better stops being good.

— Oliver Cromwell

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

— Oliver Cromwell

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.

— Oliver Cromwell