Oliver Cromwell byl anglický vojenský a politický představitel. Známý je především pro angažovanost ve vytvoření anglické republiky a jeho roli jako lorda protektora Anglie, Skotska a Irska. Byl jedním z vojenských velitelů, kteří přispěli k porážce královského vojska v občanské válce. Po popravě Karla I. roku 1649 byl vůdčí postavou Anglické republiky, obsadil Skotsko a Irsko a od roku 1653 až do své smrti roku 1658 vládl jako lord protektor.
„Zajít daleko je možné jen tehdy, nevíme-li, kam vede cesta.“
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Response to John Lambert's remarks that he "was glad to see we had the nation on our side" as they were cheered by a crowd in June 1650; as quoted by Gilbert Burnet in History of My Own Time http://books.google.com/books?id=-iswAAAAYAAJ&q="do+not+trust+to+that+for+these+very+persons+would+shout+as+much+if+you+and+I+were+going+to+be+hanged"&pg=PA145#v=onepage (1683); also in in God's Englishman by Christopher Hill (1970), Ch. VII, p. 188
“I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.”
Letter to Richard Mayor (July 1650)
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 (first published 1702 – 1704) by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609 - 1674)
Answer to the Conference at the Committee at Whitehall, Second Protectorate Parliament (13 April 1657), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 504
On his forcible dissolution of parliament (April 1653) quoted in Flagellum: or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Oliver Cromwell the Late Usurper (1663) by James Heath
To the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
Speech dissolving the First Protectorate Parliament (22 January 1655)
On the Quakers, after meeting with George Fox, as quoted in Autobiography of George Fox (1694)
Speech to the "Barebones Parliament" (July 1653)
“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
Letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (3 August 1650)
Answer to the Conference at the Committee at Whitehall, Second Protectorate Parliament http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36885 (13 April 1657), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), pp. 496-497
“Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.”
Attributed by William Blacker (not to be confused with Valentine Blacker), who popularized the quote with his poem "Oliver's Advice" http://books.google.com/books?id=JmEaAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Oliver%27s+Advice%22+Cromwell&q=%22Oliver%27s+Advice%22+Cromwell#v=snippet&q=%22Oliver's%20Advice%22%20Cromwell&f=false, published under the pseudonym Fitz Stewart in The Dublin University Magazine, December 1834, p. 700; where the attribution to Cromwell appears in a footnote describing a "well-authenticated anecdote" that explains the poem's title. The repeated line in Blacker's poem is "Put your trust in God, my boys, but keep your powder dry".
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Varianta: Trust in God and keep your powder dry.
Varianta: Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
Reported remarks over the body of Charles I after his execution (January 1649), as quoted in Oliver Cromwell : A History (1895) by Samuel Harden Church, p. 321
“Being comes before well-being.”
As quoted by Chief Justice John Greig Latham in his sole dissent in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth (1951), for his argument that defence is the pre-eminent responsibility of the state
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