“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 gentleman and is nothing else.” Letter from Cromwell to Sir William Spring. Sept. 1643.
“I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in it's just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences….” Cromwell to the first Protectorate Parliament, 22 January 1655.
“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 gentleman and is nothing else.”
Letter from Cromwell to Sir William Spring. Sept. 1643.
“I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in it's just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences….” Cromwell to the first Protectorate Parliament, 22 January 1655.