Shit Oliver Cromwell Said

I am very often judged for one who goes too fast that way, and it is the property of men that are as I am to be full of apprehensions that dangers are not so real as imaginary, to be always making haste, and more sometimes perhaps then good speed.

Oliver Cromwell at the Reading Debates, 1647

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There is one general grievance in the Nation. It is the Law … and the great grievance lies in the execution and administration. To hang a man for sixpence, thirteen pence, I know not what; to hang for a trifle, and pardon murder - is the ministration of the Law, through the ill-framing of it.

Oliver Cromwell to his Second Protectorate Parliament

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Every sect saith: ‘Oh, give me liberty!’ but give him it, and he will not yield it to anybody else.

Oliver Cromwell

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Cromwell (feat. Black Tom)

Love what you’re doing. Just reading a couple of them made me start thinking…and writing (without being overly mindful of historical accuracy or stance):

Oliver Cromwell? More like Oliver Bombwell.
Charles Stuart is the sub and Oliver’s the dom, hell…
…is what he’s been sowing, yes, to keep the rhymes flowing
“None rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”
Check it: he’s the English Lord Protector, Commonwealth erector
His job’s to make shit violent, keep the critics silent
Kick the king over and then run out the tyrant
Like Tarquinius Superbus, yeah that’s right you heard us,
He’s that new Lucius—luscious—kings he crushes
With that New Model Army Funk,
The way it’s supposed to be.
Catch them up in Naseby,
Roundheads going crazy
Up and down the battlefield.
Kickin’ it with Fairfax,
Yeah like since way back.
Picked up these tracks
Then laid them in the dusssst.

…I have honestly never felt more glad to run this blog than when I saw this submission in my inbox. Thank you. —mod

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I would rather I were in my grave than hinder you on anything that may be for settlement, for the nation needs it and never needed it more. I am hugely taken with the word settlement, with the thing and with the notion of it. I think he is not worthy to live in England that is not… A nation is like a house, it cannot stand without settlement.

Oliver Cromwell to a parliamentary committee, April 1657

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I will not seek to set up that that Providence hath destroyed and laid in the dust.

Oliver Cromwell refusing the office of King, April 1657

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There is no intelligent person but will easily see how empty and weak the reasons are that the Spaniard has for claiming for himself alone an empire of such vast and prodigious extent.

Oliver Cromwell to Parliament, 1654

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That great objection will lie upon us… that we have got things of the Parliament by force, and we know what it is to have that stain lie upon us.

Oliver Cromwell on the possibility of purging Parliament, at the Reading Debates 1647

2 months ago

Anonymous asked: So is this blog the first in a series of glorifying country-destroying genocidal bastards, or should I not be holding out for a shit Hitler said tumblr?

Haha, okay, it was only a matter of time.

I am totally willing to have a sensible discussion with you about the controversy, myths, and tangled historiography surrounding Oliver Cromwell; it is a very interesting topic! But I am not going to dignify this— or the other message, which I assume was also from you (if we are into making assumptions here, as you clearly are when you call me a “disgusting uneducated English cunt” and “an idiotic, anglo-patriotic, BNP-sympathizing brat”)— with a respectful answer until you take a breather, calm down, and hit me up with some proof that this blog is actually “glorifying” Cromwell.

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You have no other way to deal with these men but to break them or they will break you; yea and bring all the guilt of the blood and treasure shed and spent in this kingdom upon your heads and shoulders, and frustrate and make void all that, with so many years’ industry, toil, and pains, you have done, and so render you to all rational men in the world as the most contemptibilest generation of silly, low-spirited men in the earth, to be broken and routed by such a despicable, contemptible generation of men as they are… I tell you again, you are necessitated to break them.

Cromwell, March 1649 (allegedly; reported by John Lilburne), on the Levellers

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