Make The Iron Hot By Striking It.

I Would Have Been Glad To Have Lived Under My Wood Side, And To Have Kept A Flock Of Sheep, Rather Than To Have Undertaken This Government.

There Are Some Things In This Establishment That Are Fundamental... About Which I Shall Deal Plainly With You... The Government By A Single Person And A Parliament Is A Fundamental... And... Though I May Seem To Plead For Myself, Yet I Do Not: No, Nor Can Any Reasonable Man Say It... I Plead For This Nation, And All The Honest Men Therein.

I Have Not The Particular Shining Bauble Or Feather In My Cap For Crowds To Gaze At Or Kneel To, But I Have Power And Resolution For Foes To Tremble At.

There Isn't A Tree To Hang A Man, Water To Drown A Man Nor Soil To Bury A Man

We Study The Glory Of God, And The Honour And Liberty Of Parliament, For Which We Unanimously 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.