Cromwell

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“No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.”
—Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

“He was not in the least a rhetorician, was not talking to Buncombe or his constituents anywhere, had no need to invent anything but to tell the simple truth, and communicate his own resolution; therefore he appeared incomparably strong, and eloquence in Congress and elsewhere seemed to me at a discount. It was like the speeches of Cromwell compared with those of an ordinary king.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A few honest men are better than numbers.”
—Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)