Oliver Cromwell Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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

  War, Skills, Desire

  Quoted in HoraceWalpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1763). Usually misquoted as "warts and all."

• A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Military, War, Men

• We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Fighting, Men

  Oliver Cromwell (18??). “Oliver Cromwell's letters & speeches: with elucidations”

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