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To: Gamecock

I think I read about this one when I was a kid — Cromwell was about to give up without starting combat because he didn’t have the high ground, and the Scots obliged by marching down the hill.

Cromwell (a distant relative of Thomas Cromwell, one of Henry VIII’s most trusted henchmen, until Hank had him beheaded) once said to the Presbyters, “I beseech then, in the bowels of Christ, consider that you may be mistaken.” Yeah, he had quite a way with words.


8 posted on 09/04/2015 12:14:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv
Yeah, he had quite a way with words.

He sure did. The speech I like, which in many ways applies to Congress, was this one:
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!"

Other quotes HERE.

15 posted on 09/04/2015 1:09:31 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: SunkenCiv

What??? We’re watching “Wolf Hall”(series about Thomas Cromwell) and are about 3 episodes in. He was so nice to the king (so far). Can’t believe he ends up being beheaded.


24 posted on 09/07/2015 4:41:49 PM PDT by Jessarah
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