Frasi di Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell è stato un condottiero e politico inglese.

Dopo essere stato alla testa delle forze che abbatterono temporaneamente la monarchia inglese, instaurando la repubblica del Commonwealth of England, governò Inghilterra, Scozia e Irlanda con il titolo di Lord Protettore, dal 16 dicembre 1653 fino alla morte.

Dopo la sepoltura la sua salma fu riesumata e sottoposta al rituale dell'esecuzione postuma. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Aprile 1599 – 3. Settembre 1658
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Oliver Cromwell frasi celebri

“Abbiate fede in Dio, ragazzi miei, e tenete le vostre polveri asciutte.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, U. Hoepli, Milano, 1921, p. 450

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Oliver Cromwell: Frasi in inglese

“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”

Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3846/3846.txt
Variante: One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.

“Necessity has no law.”

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)

“It's a blessed thing to die daily.”

Letter to Sir Thomas Fairfax (7 March 1646)
Contesto: It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according to the flesh, and things, are lighter than vanity. I find this only good, to love the Lord and his poor despised people, to do for them and to be ready to suffer with them.... and he that is found worthy of this hath obtained great favour from the Lord; and he that is established in this shall ( being conformed to Christ and the rest of the Body) participate in the glory of a resurrection which will answer all.

“I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a Government as this is.”

Statement to Parliament (4 February 1658) quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 466

“God made them as stubble to our swords.”

Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)

“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.”

Speech to Parliament http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36881 (4 February 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 465-466

“We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration.”

Speech in the Commons during the debate which preceded the "Vote of No Addresses" (January 1648) as recorded in the diary of John Boys of Kent
Contesto: We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration. It’s granted the king has broken his trust, yet you are fearful to declare you will make no further addresses... look on the people you represent, and break not your trust, and expose not the honest party of your kingdom, who have bled for you, and suffer not misery to fall upon them for want of courage and resolution in you, else the honest people may take such courses as nature dictates to them.

“The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.”

Letter to William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons (4 September 1651)

“I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.”

As quoted from "Dying Sayings" of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches by Thomas Carlyle

“Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.”

Speech dismissing the "Rump Parliament" (20 April 1653)

“This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.”

After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town" (1649)

“Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.”

Quoted in a statement to Parliament as as "a maxim not to be despised" (4 September 1654)

“I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.”

To Algernon Sidney, one of the judges at the trial of Charles I (December 1648)

“A few honest men are better than numbers.”

Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)

“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.”

As quoted in Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1771) by Horace Walpole often credited as being the origin of the phrase "warts and all".
Variant: Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

“It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.”

Words that Cromwell spoke as he was dying and was offered a drink (3 September 1658)

“You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.”

Speech to Parliament http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36871 (25 January 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 361

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