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    “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)

    “The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

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

    “Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
    —Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)