HB Oliver Cromwell, 25 Apr 1599
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell, in To Honour God- The Spirituality of Oliver Cromwell, Michael Haykin, 1999
If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution. - Oliver Cromwell, On the passing of the revolutionary Grand Remonstrance of November 1641 listing Parliament's grievances against King Charles I, as quoted in A History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else. - Oliver Cromwell Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
A few honest men are better than numbers. - Oliver Cromwell Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
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 CromwellStatement before the battle of Marston Moor (July 2, 1644)
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