Oliver Cromwell/member of Parliament - 1628-29 and 1640-42

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    “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

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

    “Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will have the right of exemption will be the mother ...”
    —Ruth C. D. Havens, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    “What is the historical function of Parliament in this country? It is to prevent the Government from governing.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)