Oliver Cromwell Quotes About Liberty

• 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.

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  Oliver Cromwell

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

  1487

• 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.

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  Oliver Cromwell

  Oliver Cromwell (1820). “Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry”, p.561

  5198

• For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

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  Oliver Cromwell (1810). “Cromwelliana: A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was Engaged, from the Year 1642 to His Death 1658, with a Continuation of Other Transactions To the Restoration”, p.68

  1080

• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

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  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Letters and Speeches”, p.84

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