![]() ![]() * “ Oliver Cromwell had certainly this afflatus. * “The commonest charge against Cromwell is hypocrisy - and the commonest basis for that is defective chronology.” The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation. W.C Abbott, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. ![]() Unless the socialists or the anarchists finally prevail- and perhaps even then - his fame seems as secure as human reputation is likely to be in a changing world.” ![]() Since Carlyle wrote, all liberals have seen in him their champion, and all revolutionists have apotheosized the first great representatives of their school while, on the other side, their opponents have hailed the dictator who put down anarchy. * “During a great part of the eighteenth century most Tories hated him because he overthrew the monarchy, most Whigs because he overthrew Parliament.
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