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A man of war is the best ambassador.

— Oliver Cromwell

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  1. 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 roughnes…
  2. He who stops being better stops being good.
  3. It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
  4. Let us restore the king to his throne, and let the king in future agree to govern with the consent of Parliament. Let us restore the old ch…
  5. I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.
  6. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
  7. I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a Government as this is.
  8. Not what they want but what is good for them.

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  • cromwell
  • war
  • ambassador
  • diplomacy
  • strength

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