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!
Oliver CromwellI was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
Oliver CromwellMr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Oliver CromwellSir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.
Oliver Cromwell