Quote #47
He who stops being better stops being good.
More from Oliver Cromwell
- A man of war is the best ambassador.
- 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…
- 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…
- Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
- It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
- Not what they want but what is good for them.
- 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.
- On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.