Oliver Cromwell

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

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

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

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

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.

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

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 roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

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