Oliver Cromwell/irish Campaign - 1649%e2%80%931650

Famous quotes containing the words oliver cromwell, cromwell, irish and/or campaign:

    “I would rather have a plain, russet-coated captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call “a gentleman” and is nothing else.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “Necessity hath no law.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
    —Bob Geldof (b. 1954)

    “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
    —Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)