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!
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Oliver Cromwell
First Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth (1599-1658). A Puritan gentry farmer who entered military life at age 43, raised the Ironsides cavalry, and led Parliamentary forces to victory at Marston Moor and Naseby. He signed the death warrant of Charles I in 1649, conquered Ireland with brutal massacres at Drogheda and Wexford, dissolved the Rump Parliament at gunpoint, and ruled as quasi-king while refusing the crown. His Navigation Acts laid the foundations of the British maritime empire; his ban on Christmas and military rule left him a deeply divisive figure in English memory three centuries later.
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Oliver Cromwell's Other Quotes
I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
Paint me as I am, warts and everything.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Necessity has no law. But feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cheat that men can play upon the Providence of God.
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