The State, In Choosing Men

There Are Some Things In This Establishment That Are Fundamental... About Which I Shall Deal Plainly With You... The Government By A Single Person And A Parliament Is A Fundamental... And... Though I May Seem To Plead For Myself, Yet I Do Not: No, Nor Can Any Reasonable Man Say It... I Plead For This Nation, And All The Honest Men Therein.

A Man Never Rises Higher Than When He Does Not Know Whither His Path Can Still Lead Him.

In Return For Financial Support Will Advocate Admission Of Jews To England; This However Impossible While Charles Living. Charles Cannot Be Executed Without Trial On Adequate Grounds For Which Do Not Presently Exist. Therefore Advise That Charles Be Assassinated, But Will Have Nothing To Do With Arrangements For Procuring An Assassin, Though Willing To Help In His Escape. [king Charles I Was In Prison At The Time].

Subtlety May Deceive You; Integrity Never Will.

That Which Brought Me Into The Capacity I Now Stand In, Was The Petition And Advice Given Me By You, Who, In Reference To The Ancient Constitution, Did Draw Me Here To Accept The Place Of Protector. There Is Not A Man Living Can Say I Sought It, No Not A Man, Nor Woman, Treading Upon English Ground.