11 Oliver Cromwell Quotes on War

Oliver Cromwell quotes on war

5. God made them as stubble to our swords.

7. We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

13. I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.

14. Cruel necessity.

26. You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

36. Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.

46. A man of war is the best ambassador.

55. Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.

65. A devotee of law, he was forced to be often lawless; a civilian to the core, he had to maintain himself by the sword; with a passion to construct, his task was chiefly to destroy; the most scrupulous of men, he had to ride roughshod over his own scruples and those of others; the tenderest, he had continually to harden his heart; the most English of our greater figures, he spent his life in opposition to the majority of Englishmen; a realist, he was condemned to build that which could not last.

66. Cromwell was a man in whom ambition had not wholly suppressed, but only suspended, the sentiments of religion.

82. So restless Cromwell could not cease In the inglorious Arts of Peace, But through adventrous war, Urged his active star... To ruine the great work of time, And cast the kingdom old Into another Mold...