Quotes by Oliver Cromwell

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
• We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
• The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
• Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
• Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
• A few honest men are better than numbers.
• Nature can do more than physicians.
• Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
• 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.
• He who stops being better stops being good.
• Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
• Necessity has no law.
• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.