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

He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell

Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell

Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell

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

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.
Oliver Cromwell

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
Oliver Cromwell

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.
Oliver Cromwell