John Hampden Quotes
There are no footprints backwards!
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John Hampden, 1594-1643, English Statesman, Personal motto
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John Hampden was an English landowner and politician whose opposition to arbitrary taxes imposed by Charles I made him a national figure. An ally of Parliamentarian leader John Pym, and cousin to Oliver Cromwell, he was one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War.