Oliver Cromwell

“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.”

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

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

“We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.”

“Nature can do more than physicians.”

“He who stops being better stops being good.”

“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.”

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

“A few honest men are better than numbers.”

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

“God made them as stubble to our swords.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Necessity has no law.”

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

“Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.”