Oliver Cromwell Quotes

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

"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."
-Oliver Cromwell

"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 in Government quotes.

"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

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

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

"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."
-Oliver Cromwell

"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