Quote by Oliver Cromwell
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I

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! – Oliver Cromwell

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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. – Oliver Cromwell

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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

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Portraits
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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. – Benjamin Disraeli

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The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country. – Lord Denning

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Parliament

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament. – Daniel OConnell

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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin

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