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

- Oliver Cromwell

God made them as stubble to our swords.

- Oliver Cromwell

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

- Oliver Cromwell

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

A few honest men are better than numbers.

- Oliver Cromwell

Necessity has no law.

- Oliver Cromwell

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

- Oliver Cromwell

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

- 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

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

- Oliver Cromwell

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

- Oliver Cromwell

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

- Oliver Cromwell

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

- Oliver Cromwell

He who stops being better stops being good.

- Oliver Cromwell

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

- Oliver Cromwell

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

- Oliver Cromwell

Nature can do more than physicians.

- 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