A few honest men are better than numbers.
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

God made them as stubble to our swords.
Oliver Cromwell

He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell

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

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

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

Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell

Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell


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

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

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

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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

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

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