Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

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 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.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.