80 Quotes by Oliver Cromwell

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.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

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

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.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry

A few honest men are better than numbers.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.