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Necessity has no law.
Make the iron hot by striking it.
Nature can do more than physicians.
A man-of-war is the best ambassador.
God made them as stubble to our swords.
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Those who stop being better stop being good.
He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.
There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.
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!
Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
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.
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.
Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
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.
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.