Cromwell, having ordered a company of musketeers to follow him, entered the House 'in plain black clothes and grey worsted stockings,' and, sitting down, listened for a while to their proceedings. Hearing at length the question put, that the bill do pass, he rose, put off his hat, and began to speak. In the course of his address, he told them of their self-seeking and delays of justice, till at length Sir Peter Wentworth interrupted him with a remonstrance against such language. Then blazing up, he said, 'We have had enough of this—I will put an end to your prating.' Stepping into the floor of the House, and clapping on his hat, he commenced a violent harangue, which he occasionally emphasized by stamping with his feet, and which came mainly to this, 'It is not fit you should sit here any longer—you have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. You shall now give place to better men.' 'Call them in!' he exclaimed; and his officer Harrison and a file of soldiers entered the House.

Then proceeding, 'You are no parliament! Some of you are drunkards '—bending a stern eye upon Mr. Chaloner; 'some of you are _______ ,' a word expressive of a worse immorality, and he looked here at Henry Marten and Sir Peter Wentworth —'living in open contempt of God's commandments. Some of you are corrupt, unjust persons—how can you be a parliament for God's people? You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!'

CROMWELL'S DISSOLUTION OP THE RUMP PARLIAMENT

The 20th of April 1653

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unaminously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

Statement to Colonel Valentine Walton, 5 or 6 September 1644

That was cool. Never heard that one before.

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How appropriate to America’s impending invasion of Iran to mention Oliver Khomeini Cromwell!

After all, Cromwell’s control-freak Calvinazism, with its untenable, narcissistic sense of superiority and entitlement, has been the core inspiration for America’s continuous wars of capitalistic conquests since the Mayfair vomited its killjoy cargo ashore in 1620.

Quote:

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator

(BTW, England is yet again getting an awful make-love in the cricket at Adelaide.}

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"Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

" if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right? " - Dorothy


"A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. " - Wizard of Oz





"94. Christians are to be exhorted that they be diligent in
following Christ, their Head, through penalties, deaths, and
hell;

95. And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather
through many tribulations, than through the assurance of
peace
" - the last 2 of the 95 Theses Martin Luther 1517




"Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!"

Advice by Polonius to his son laertes
Act I scene III Hamlet 1601

"Comrades!

Comrades our slogan today is “not in our name” but unfortunately, it is in our name. The bombs that are dropped on Iraqi will be British bombs funded by British taxpayers like ourselves. The depleted Uranium that was used before was paid for by us. All the crimes that have been described today are crimes that will be committed by a government that we have elected and which is accountable to us and the question for us now is what do we do now to stop them doing what they are planning to do now. That is to say, the responsibility belongs to all of us who are here in Trafalgar Square and everyone else in Britain who opposes the war.

Now, Jim Mortimer said quite rightly the trade union movement should take action to bring pressure to bear, I agree with that. Tarqi Ali said that when the bombing begins we should go into the streets and I agree with that but I want to go further than that. When I look back on my life, and I am and old man now. I look back and I think we never did enough to stop the things that were done in our name and we must now see if this war begins that we do more than we did in the past until the people that we elect hear what we say and take notice of what we do. On Armistice Day ever year we stop for two minutes to remember the people who died. I have come with a proposal that when the war begins we stop for one hour every day to prevent the deaths of people who are now alive. We should now seriously think of something I have never suggested in my life before, in this way, that we should have non-violent resistance to the government which is doing these things in our name. Instead of two minutes silence at the end of every year remember the women in Baghdad today who will be widows in two months time, the children who will be orphans, the towns that will be destroyed, the people who will die and resolve now that the moment that bombing begins we go to where we are and we stop for one hour.

Stop the buses. Stop the trains. Stop the [unclear]. It’s all very well going to Downing Street, I’ve spent half my life at Downing Street, in, outside Downing Street. It has to be more than that, its got to be something we take up in every town and village.

I put it to you, go home to day, talk at your school about what you will do in your school when the bombing begins. Raise it in the churches, in the mosques in the synagogues, raise it at your place of work because we could well be headed for a third world war triggered off by stupid men who are now in charge and are governing in our name.

I think we have to take some lessons from some of the greatest leaders in the world, I think of Mahatma Gandhi who was in and out of prison half his life, never did any harm to anybody, but by God he made it clear he would not except British imperialism in India and we should not accept American imperialism in the world in which we live.

That is my proposal I dare say it won’t be widely taken up but everyone who stops for an hour will be asked “why have you stopped” and we can get the debate going. Take the debate out of the television studios and the Mill Bank tower and the House of Commons and bring it back to us because we are responsible for the future of the planet and the future of the human race and comrades we cannot let our children down.

Good luck. Thank you very much indeed."

Speech by Tony Benn
Trafalgar Square 2nd March 2002

Now you quote that most herculean of all hypocrites, Luther! That disgustingly ingratiating instrument and pimp for the parasitic Germanic Princes, i.e. the people oppressing capitalists of that period.

HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR?!!

Go and wash your forelock-tugging Sassenach trap out immediately by singing Waltzing Matilda ten times.

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-- Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

Dear Mr. Whitlam,

In accordance with section 64 of the Constitution I hereby determine your appointment as my Chief Adviser and Head of the Government. It follows that I also hereby determine the appointments of all the Ministers in your Government.

You have previously told me that you would never resign or advice an election of the House of Representatives or a double dissolution and that the only way in which such an election could be obtained would be by my dismissal of you and your ministerial colleagues. As it appeared likely that you would today persist in this attitude I decided that, if you did, I would determine your commission and state my reasons for doing so. You have persisted in your attitude and I have accordingly acted as indicated. I attach a statement of my reasons which I intend to publish immediately.

It is with a great deal of regret that I have taken this step both in respect of yourself and your colleagues.

I propose to send for the Leader of the Opposition and to commission him to form a new caretaker government until an election can be held.

Yours sincerely,
(sgnd John R. Kerr)

The Honourable E. G. Whitlam, QC, M.P.
11 November 1975

And,

Speaking of great speeches and Ned (PBUH!!) I'll close with a quote from the proto-Ostrailyun patriot Himself:

...And they were singing; bye bye Miss Ostrailyun Meat Pie,
Ned rode his Neddy to the levee but the levy was dry,
Them Cafflik boys were drinking Usquebaugh,
Singing, "This'll be the day the traps (cops} die...This'll be the day the traps die...

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"Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt."
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"You let those rednecks (means British in SA) up there, and you are going to get them down"


Mrs. Joubert to her husband, General Joubert, after a mistake by him let the British army under Sir. Coley take a mountain he was supposed to guard. When he woke up and saw the Union Jack up there, he wanted to withdraw, but his wife forced him to launch an attack up hill against superiour numbers, leading to the battle of MAjuba, and a great victory for the Boer forced, leading to the regaining of their independence and a huge defeat for the Empire!

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

Patres!
Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.
Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!

Brothers, what we do in life... echoes in eternity.


-General Maximus Decimus Meridius, Felix Legion Commander, Armies of the North.
Address to his troops prior to the final battle of the Marcomanic war.

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