Zitate von Oliver Cromwell

Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)

Address to the Rump Parliament (20 April 1653)

Statement to Parliament (4 February 1658) quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 466

Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3846/3846.txt
Variante: One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.

Letter to Sir Thomas Fairfax (7 March 1646)
Kontext: It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according to the flesh, and things, are lighter than vanity. I find this only good, to love the Lord and his poor despised people, to do for them and to be ready to suffer with them.... and he that is found worthy of this hath obtained great favour from the Lord; and he that is established in this shall ( being conformed to Christ and the rest of the Body) participate in the glory of a resurrection which will answer all.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)

Speech to Parliament http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36881 (4 February 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 465-466

Speech in the Commons during the debate which preceded the "Vote of No Addresses" (January 1648) as recorded in the diary of John Boys of Kent
Kontext: We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration. It’s granted the king has broken his trust, yet you are fearful to declare you will make no further addresses... look on the people you represent, and break not your trust, and expose not the honest party of your kingdom, who have bled for you, and suffer not misery to fall upon them for want of courage and resolution in you, else the honest people may take such courses as nature dictates to them.

Letter to William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons (4 September 1651)

Letter to Charles Fleetwood (1652)

As quoted from "Dying Sayings" of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches by Thomas Carlyle

Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)

Speech dismissing the "Rump Parliament" (20 April 1653)

After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town" (1649)

Quoted in a statement to Parliament as as "a maxim not to be despised" (4 September 1654)

Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)

Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)

To Algernon Sidney, one of the judges at the trial of Charles I (December 1648)

Speech to his army officers (23 March 1649)