Quotes from Oliver Cromwell

Nature can do more than physicians.

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.

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!

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

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

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

Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!

Those who stop being better stop being good.

He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

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.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

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

God made them as stubble to our swords.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

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

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.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

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