Oliver Cromwell/politics - 1647-49

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    “The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.”
    —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)

    “The will to change begins in the body not in the mind
    My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and each of my failures.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)