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

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Source : Remarks to Rump Parliament, 20 Apr. 1653. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations describes this as "oral tradition." BulstrodeWhitlocke, Memorials of the English Affairs (1682), describes Cromwell as telling the House that "they has sate long enough, unles they had done more good."

Oliver Cromwell

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“We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.”
“The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.”
“Stop yelling at the movie, you ainâ€™t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector.”
“The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was promising long-term in the future. And what he was promising for that future and doing in the present was not saving souls for a disembodied eternity but rescuing -people from the corruption and decay of the way the world presently is so they could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is Godâ€™s ultimate purposeâ€‰â€”â€‰â€‹and so they could thus become colleagues and partners in that large project.”
“Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."”
“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”
“At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.”
“Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.”

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