Oliver Cromwell quotes

" Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. " # Opportunity

" Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. " # Deception

" A few honest men are better than numbers. " # Honesty # Freedom # Power

" Make the iron hot by striking it. " # Opportunity

" Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. " # Approval # Cheerfulness # Trust

" No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes. " # Getting Ahead # Freedom # Power

" What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. " # History and Historians # Dance and Dancing # Growth

" I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. " # Army and Navy # Love # Leaders and Leadership

" You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! " # Parliament # God # Love

" 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. " # Portraits # Flattery # Arts and Artists