No, really.
You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Leo Amery (paraphrasing Oliver Cromwell’s dismissal of the Rump Parliament), in reference to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, 7 May 1940.
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25 November 2007 at 6:22 am
Chris Williams
Now, what could that be about.?
While thinking of its relevance for the modern day, you might want to read this tome by Forster:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Howards-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/014118213X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195932063&sr=8-1
25 November 2007 at 6:28 pm
Brett Holman
That seems oddly appropriate!
27 November 2007 at 1:39 pm
david tiley
Almost an exact quote actually, according to the glorious google.
Here’s one that is close to my visceral objection to the Liberal party:
“i had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else.”
And another one which is salutary just at the moment, said as the crowd cheered him:
“the people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.”
From http://www.olivercromwell.org/quotes1.htm
28 November 2007 at 6:22 pm
Brett Holman
I was probably being unnecessarily pedantic by calling it a paraphrase. But I read somewhere that Cromwell’s speech was not recorded at the time, so we don’t know the precise words he used. On the other hand, that means that it could be right, just by chance …