Famous quotes containing the words oliver cromwell, cromwell, member and/or parliament:
“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
—Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
“No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.”
—Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)