| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Oliver Cromwell |
| | | A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. | 1 |
| I beseech you, dear brethren, think it possible that you may be wrong. | 2 |
| I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. | 3 |
| Leave off your fooling and come down, sir. | 4 |
| Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry. | 5 |
| Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. | 6 |
| Vote it as you please; there is a company of poor men that will spend all their blood before they see it settled so. | 7 |
| What are all our histories but God manifesting himself, that he hath shaken, and tumbled down, and trampled upon everything that he hath not planted! | 8 | | |
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