Oliver Cromwell: Doing

Oliver Cromwell was English military and political leader. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately… Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

Oliver Cromwell

Address to the Rump Parliament (20 April 1653)

God

“If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech to his army officers (23 March 1649)

God , Confidence , Departure , Waiting

“God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech to the Army Council (1654)

God , World , Home

“Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.”

Oliver Cromwell

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

Personality

“There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental… about which I shall deal plainly with you… the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental… and… though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it… I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.”

Oliver Cromwell

To the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)

Men , Personality