Oliver Cromwell Quotes

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: God)

"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Fact)

"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
(Related: Men, Opinions, State)

"God made them as stubble to our swords."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: God)

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Integrity, May, Will)

"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Trust, God)

"Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."
- Oliver Cromwell

"Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Love, Providence)

"A few honest men are better than numbers."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Men, Numbers)

"Nature can do more than physicians."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Nature, Physicians)

"Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Faith, God)

"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."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Government, Sheep, Wood)

"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
(Related: Nothing)

"He who stops being better stops being good."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Being)

"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Trust)

"Necessity has no law."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Law, Necessity)

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Christ, May)