Oliver cromwell

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Necessity has no law.

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.

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.

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

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.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

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