Oliver Cromwell Quotes

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

I’m the constitution around here now.

There never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

The people who own the country are now going to get to run it.

You see this palace is now yours, and the city is in your power; what do you think ought to be done?

Cities are governed, so are houses too, by wisdom, not by harp-playing and whistling.

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a thankless office.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

One day, I'll disappear and hide in a corner of Britain. I'll own a bakery in a village, live above it, have a big garden because I like mowing. I want to get up when I feel like it, let people queue for my products, and when they're gone, shut the shop and think about tomorrow. Creating magic - that's my dream. And I'll do it.

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

President means chief servant

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.