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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)

“Shall we seek for the root of our comforts within us; what God hath done, what he is to us in Christ, is the root of our comfort. In this is stability; in us is weakness. Acts of obedience are not perfect, and therefore yield not perfect peace. Faith, as an act, yields it not, but as it carries us into him, who is our perfect rest and peace; in whom we are accounted of, and received by, the Father, even as Christ himself. This is our high calling. Rest we here, and here only.”

Oliver Cromwell

Letter to Charles Fleetwood (1652)

“Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.”

Oliver Cromwell

Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)

“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 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)

“Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.”

Oliver Cromwell

As quoted in Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1771) by Horace Walpole often credited as being the origin of the phrase "warts and all".
Variant: Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.