Oliver Cromwell Quotes

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!

He who stops being better stops being good.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

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

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

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

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

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

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.

Those who stop being better stop being good.

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

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

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!

Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

Make the iron hot by striking it.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

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

God made them as stubble to our swords.