Quote #17

These persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

More from Oliver Cromwell

  1. This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
  2. I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
  3. If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and…
  4. I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
  5. Cruel necessity.
  6. Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It…
  7. I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.
  8. No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

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