Great Throughts Treasury

"Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole."

"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."

"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!"

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

"When he quitted the Parliament, his chief dependence was on the Army, which he endeavored by all means to keep in unity, and if he could not bring it to his sense, he, rather than suffer any division in it, went over himself and carried his friends with him into that way which the army did choose, and that faster than any other person in it."

"When I went there, I did not think to have done this. But perceiving the spirit of god so strong upon me, I would not consult flesh and blood."

"Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose."

"Whilst he was curious of his own words, (not putting forth too many lest they should betray his thoughts) he made others talk until he had, as it were, sifted them, and known their most intimate designs."

"You are as like the forming of God as ever people were... you are at the edge of promises and prophecies."

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

"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

"You drew me here to accept the place I now stand in. There is ne?er a man within these walls that can say, sir, you sought it, nay, not a man nor woman treading upon English ground."

"Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it."