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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, soldier, and revolutionary responsible for the overthrow of the monarchy, temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth, and assuming rule as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
- If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.
- On the passing of the revolutionary Grand Remonstrance of November 1641 listing Parliament's grievances against King Charles I, as quoted in A History of the Rebellion (first published 1702 – 1704) by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609 - 1674)
- I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.
- Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
- A few honest men are better than numbers.
- Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
- The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it – that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself:
- Letter to Lawrence Crawford (10 March 1643)
- Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.
- Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)
- 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.
- Statement to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 or 6 September 1644)
- I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are.
- Before the Battle of Naseby (14 June 1645)
- It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according to the flesh, and things, are lighter than vanity. I find this only good, to love the Lord and his poor despised people, to do for them and to be ready to suffer with them....and he that is found worthy of this hath obtained great favour from the Lord; and he that is established in this shall ( being conformed to Christ and the rest of the Body) participate in the glory of a resurrection which will answer all.
- Letter to Sir Thomas Fairfax (7 March 1646)
- This is our comfort, God is in heaven, and He doth what pleaseth Him; His, and only His counsel shall stand, whatsoever the designs of men, and the fury of the people be.
- Letter to Sir Thomas Fairfax (21 December 1646)
- We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration. It's granted the king has broken his trust, yet you are fearful to declare you will make no further addresses... look on the people you represent, and break not your trust, and expose not the honest party of your kingdom, who have bled for you, and suffer not misery to fall upon them for want of courage and resolution in you, else the honest people may take such courses as nature dictates to them.
- Speech in the Commons during the debate which preceded the "Vote of No Addresses" (January 1648) as recorded in the diary of John Boys of Kent
- Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.
- On the trial of Charles I (December 1648)
- I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.
- To Algernon Sidney, one of the judges at the trial of Charles I (December 1648)
- Cruel necessity.
- Reported remarks over the body of Charles I after his execution (January 1649), as quoted in Oliver Cromwell : A History (1895) by Samuel Harden Church, p. 321
- If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.
- Speech to his army officers (23 March 1649)
- This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
- After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town" (1649)
- Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
- Response to John Lambert's remarks that he "was glad to see we had the nation on our side" as they were cheered by a crowd in June 1650; as quoted by Gilbert Burnet in History of My Own Time (1683); also in in God's Englishman by Christopher Hill (1970), Ch. VII, p. 188
- I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
- Letter to Richard Mayor (July 1650)
- I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
- Letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (3 August 1650)
- Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
- Letter to Walter Dundas (12 September 1650)
- No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
- Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717)
- Variant: One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.
- I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
- Repudiating a royal debt (August 1651)
- The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
- Letter to William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons (4 September 1651)
- Shall we seek for the root of our comforts within us; what God hath done, what he is to us in Christ, is the root of our comfort. In this is stability; in us is weakness. Acts of obedience are not perfect, and therefore yield not perfect peace. Faith, as an act, yields it not, but as it carries us into him, who is our perfect rest and peace; in whom we are accounted of, and received by, the Father, even as Christ himself. This is our high calling. Rest we here, and here only.
- Letter to Charles Fleetwood (1652)
- Take away that fool's bauble, the mace.
- Speech dismissing the "Rump Parliament" (20 April 1653)
- 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!
- Address to the Rump Parliament (20 April 1653)
- When I went there, I did not think to have done this. But perceiving the spirit of God so strong upon me, I would not consult flesh and blood.
- On his forcible dissolution of parliament (April 1653) quoted in Flagellum: or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Oliver Cromwell the Late Usurper (1663) by James Heath
- You are as like the forming of God as ever people were... you are at the edge of promises and prophecies.
- Speech to the "Barebones Parliament" (July 1653)
- God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.
- Speech to the Army Council (1654)
- Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
- Quoted in a statement to Parliament as as "a maxim not to be despised" (4 September 1654)
- 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.
- To the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
- In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
- Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
- Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.
- Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
- I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation — to serve in parliaments, — and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.
- Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
- I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...
- Speech dissolving the First Protectorate Parliament (22 January 1655)
- Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.
- Speech dissolving the First Protectorate Parliament (22 January 1655)
- We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
- Speech to Parliament (1655)
- Truly, though kingship be not a title but a name of office that runs through the law, yet it is not so ratione nominis, but from what is signified. It is a name of office, plainly implying a Supreme Authority. Is it more, or can it be stretched to more? I say, it is a name of office, plainly implying the Supreme Authority, and if it be so, why then I would suppose, (I am not peremptory in any thing that is matter of deduction or inference of my own,) why then I should suppose that whatsoever name hath been or shall be the name, in which the Supreme Authority shall act; why, (I say) if it had been those four or five letters, or whatsoever else it had been, that signification goes to the thing. Certainly it does, and not to the name. Why then, there can be no more said, but this, why this hath been fixt, so it may have been unfixt.
- Answer to the Conference at the Committee at Whitehall, Second Protectorate Parliament (13 April 1657), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), pp. 496-497
- Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
- Answer to the Conference at the Committee at Whitehall, Second Protectorate Parliament (13 April 1657), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 504
- You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.
- Speech to Parliament (25 January 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 361
- That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
- Speech to Parliament (4 February 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 465-466
- I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a Government as this is.
- Statement to Parliament (4 February 1658) quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 466
- I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.
- As quoted from "Dying Sayings" of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches by Thomas Carlyle
- It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
- Words that Cromwell spoke as he was dying and was offered a drink (3 September 1658)
- Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.
- On the Quakers, after meeting with George Fox, as quoted in Autobiography of George Fox (1694)
- Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
- As quoted in Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1771) by Horace Walpole often credited as being the origin of the phrase "warts and all".
Variant: Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.
- As quoted in Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1771) by Horace Walpole often credited as being the origin of the phrase "warts and all".
- Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
- Attributed by William Blacker (not to be confused with Valentine Blacker), who popularized the quote with his poem "Oliver's Advice", published under the pseudonym Fitz Stewart in The Dublin University Magazine, December 1834, p. 700; where the attribution to Cromwell appears in a footnote describing a "well-authenticated anecdote" that explains the poem's title. The repeated line in Blacker's poem is "Put your trust in God, my boys, but keep your powder dry".
- Variant: Trust in God and keep your powder dry.
- A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
- As quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays (1841), Essay X: 'Circles', p. 265
Quotes about Cromwell[edit]
- Alphabetized by author
- During a great part of the eighteenth century most Tories hated him because he overthrew the monarchy, most Whigs because he overthrew Parliament. 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. 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.
- W.C. Abbott in Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
- The commonest charge against Cromwell is hypocrisy — and the commonest basis for that is defective chronology.
- W.C Abbott in Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
- A born soldier of humble origins, Cromwell's military record in the Civil Wars was second to none. His 'reign' as Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658 has marked him for later generations as either a visionary political figure or a loathsome tyrant, and both cases are equally arguable; his religious bigotry, and the bitter fruit it bore in Ireland, are sadly beyond dispute. He remains secure in his reputation as one of the most extraordnary Englishmen who ever lived.
- Stuart Asquith, New Model Army, 1645-1660 (1981), p. 6
- Oliver Cromwell had certainly this afflatus. One that I knew was at the battle of Dunbar, told me that Oliver was carried on with a Divine impulse; he did laugh so excessively as if he had been drunk; his eyes sparkled with spirits. He obtain'd a great victory; but the action was said to be contrary to human prudence. The same fit of laughter seized Oliver Cromwell just before the battle of Naseby; as a kinsman of mine, and a great favourite of his, Colonel J. P. then present, testified. Cardinal Mazerine said, that he was a lucky fool.
- John Aubrey in Miscellanies
- A perfect master of all the arts of dissimulation: who, turning up the whites of his eyes, and seeking the Lord with pious gestures, will weep and pray, and cant most devoutly, till an opportunity offers of dealing his dupe a knock-down blow under the short ribs.
- George Bate (1608-1669), Cromwell's physician
- To give the devil his due, he restored justice, as well distributive as commutative, almost to it's ancient dignity and splendour; the judges without covetousness discharging their duties according to law and equity... His own court also was regulated according to a severe discipline; here no drunkard, nor whoremonger, nor any guilty of bribery, was to be found, without severe punishment. Trade began again to prosper; and in a word, gentle peace to flourish all over England.
- George Bate
- He thought secrecy a virtue, and dissimulation no vice, and simulation, that is in plain English, a lie, or perfideousness to be a tolerable fault in case of necessity.
- Richard Baxter in Reliquiae Baxterianae
- He was of a sanguine complexion, naturally of such a vivacity, hilarity and alacrity as another man is when he hath drunken a cup too much.
- Richard Baxter in Reliquiae Baxterianae
- The next morning I sent Colonel Cook to Cromwell, to let him know that I had letters and instructions to him from the King. He sent me word by the same messenger, that he dared not see me, it being very dangerous to us both, and bid me be assured that he would serve his Majesty as long as he could do it without his own ruin; but desired that I should not expect that he should perish for his sake.
- Sir John Berkeley in Memoirs of Sir John Berkeley (29 November 1647)
- When he quitted the Parliament, his chief dependence was on the Army, which he endeavoured by all means to keep in unity, and if he could not bring it to his sense, he, rather than suffer any division in it, went over himself and carried his friends with him into that way which the army did choose, and that faster than any other person in it.
- Sir John Berkeley in Memoirs of Sir John Berkeley
- A devotee of law, he was forced to be often lawless; a civilian to the core, he had to maintain himself by the sword; with a passion to construct, his task was chiefly to destroy; the most scrupulous of men, he had to ride roughshod over his own scruples and those of others; the tenderest, he had continually to harden his heart; the most English of our greater figures, he spent his life in opposition to the majority of Englishmen; a realist, he was condemned to build that which could not last.
- John Buchan in Oliver Cromwell
- Cromwell was a man in whom ambition had not wholly suppressed, but only suspended, the sentiments of religion.
- Edmund Burke in Letters (1791)
- Sylla was the first of victors; but our own
The sagest of usurpers, Cromwell; he
Too swept off the senates while he hewed the throne
Down to a block — immortal rebel! See
What crimes it costs to be a moment free
And famous through all ages.
- Lord Byron in Child Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IV
- I confess I have an interest in this Mr. Cromwell; and indeed, if truth must be said, in him alone. The rest are historical, dead to me; but he is epic, still living. Hail to thee, thou strong one; hail across the longdrawn funeral-aisle and night of time!...
- Thomas Carlyle in Historical Sketches
His grandeur he deriv'd from heaven alone,
For he was great e'er fortune made him so
And wars like mists that rise against the sun
Made him but greater seem, not greater grow.
No borrow'd bays his temple did adorn,
But to our Crown he did fresh jewels bring;
Nor was his virtue poison'd soon as born,
With the too early thoughts of being King.
- John Dryden, Heroic Stanzas on the death of Oliver Cromwell, written after his funeral (1658), VI–VII
- His ashes in a peaceful urn shall rest,
His name a great example stands to show
How strangely high endeavours may be blest,
Where piety and valour jointly go.
- John Dryden, Heroic Stanzas on the death of Oliver Cromwell, written after his funeral (1658), XXXVII
- Things will shortly happen which have been unheard of, and above all would open the eyes of those who live under Kings and other Sovereigns, and lead to great changes. Cromwell alone holds the direction of political and military affairs in his hands. He is one who is worth all the others put together, and, in effect, King.
- John Dury as reported by Hermann Mylius (27 September 1651)
- Saw the superb funeral of the Protector:...but it was the joyfullest funeral that I ever saw, for there were none that cried, but dogs, which the souldiers hooted away with a barbarous noise; drinking and taking tobacco in the streets as they went.
- John Evelyn in his Diary (22 October 1658)
- This day (to the stupendous and inscrutable Judgements of God) were the Carcasses of that arch-rebell Cromwell and Bradshaw the judge who condemned his Majestie & Ireton, son-in-law to the Usurper, dragged out of their superbe tombs (in Westminster among the Kings), to Tyburn & hanged on the Gallows there from 9 in the morning til 6 at night, and then buried under that fatal and ignominious monument, in a deepe pitt: Thousands of people who (who had seen them in all their pride and pompous insults) being spectators: look back at November 22, 1658, & be astonish'd - And fear God & honour the King, but meddle not with those who are given to change.
- John Evelyn in his Diary (30 January 1661)
- He lived a hypocrite and died a traitor.
- John Foster
- When I came in I was moved to say, "Peace be in this house"; and I exhorted him to keep in the fear of God, that he might receive wisdom from Him, that by it he might be directed, and order all things under his hand to God's glory.
l spoke much to him of Truth, and much discourse I had with him about religion; wherein he carried himself very moderately. But he said we quarrelled with priests, whom he called ministers. I told him I did not quarrel with them, but that they quarrelled with me and my friends. "But," said I, "if we own the prophets, Christ, and the apostles, we cannot hold up such teachers, prophets, and shepherds, as the prophets, Christ, and the apostles declared against; but we must declare against them by the same power and Spirit."
Then I showed him that the prophets, Christ, and the apostles declared freely, and against them that did not declare freely; such as preached for filthy lucre, and divined for money, and preached for hire, and were covetous and greedy, that could never have enough; and that they that have the same spirit that Christ, and the prophets, and the apostles had, could not but declare against all such now, as they did then. As I spoke, he several times said, it was very good, and it was truth. I told him that all Christendom (so called) had the Scriptures, but they wanted the power and Spirit that those had who gave forth the Scriptures; and that was the reason they were not in fellowship with the Son, nor with the Father, nor with the Scriptures, nor one with another.
Many more words I had with him; but people coming in, I drew a little back. As I was turning, he caught me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, "Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other"; adding that he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul. I told him if he did he wronged his own soul; and admonished him to hearken to God's voice, that he might stand in his counsel, and obey it; and if he did so, that would keep him from hardness of heart; but if he did not hear God's voice, his heart would be hardened. He said it was true.
Then I went out; and when Captain Drury came out after me he told me the Lord Protector had said I was at liberty, and might go whither I would.
Then I was brought into a great hall, where the Protector's gentlemen were to dine. I asked them what they brought me thither for. They said it was by the Protector's order, that I might dine with them. I bid them let the Protector know that I would not eat of his bread, nor drink of his drink. When he heard this he said, "Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can." It was told him again that we had forsaken our own possessions; and were not like to look for such things from him.
- George Fox, on his meeting with Cromwell, in Autobiography of George Fox (1694)
- That slovenly fellow which you see before us, who hath no ornament in his speech; I say that sloven, if we should ever come to have a breech with the King (which God forbid) in such case will be one of the greatest men of England.
- John Hampden, speaking to Lord Digby in the House of Commons, as reported by Sir Richard Bulstrode
- Generally he respected, or at least pretended a love to, all ingenious persons in any arts, whom he arranged to be sent or brought to him. But the niggardliness and incompetence of his reward shewed that this man was a personated act of greatness, and that Private Cromwell yet governed Prince Oliver.
- James Heath
- His character does not appear more extraordinary and unusual by the mixture of so much absurdity with so much penetration, than by his tempering such violent ambition, and such enraged fanaticism with so much regard to justice and humanity.
- David Hume in History of England
- In a word, as he was guilty of many crimes against which Damnation is denounced, and for which hell-fire is prepared, so he had some good qualities which have caused the memory of some men in all Ages to be celebrated; and he will be look'd upon by posterity as a brave bad man.
- Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon in A History of the Rebellion
- A complex character such as that of Cromwell, is incapable of creation, except in times of great civil and religious excitement, and one cannot judge of the man without at the same time considering the contending elements by which he was surrounded. It is possible to take his character to pieces, and, selecting one or other of his qualities as a corner-stone, to build around it a monument which will show him as a patriot or a plotter, a Christian man or a hypocrite, a demon or a demi-god as the sculptor may choose.
- F.A Inderwick in The Interregnum, 1648-60
- "I am," said he, "as much for a government by consent as any man; but where shall we find that consent? Amongst the Prelatical, Presbyterian, Independent, Anabaptist, or Leveling Parties?"… then he fell into the commendation of his own government, boasting of the protection and quiet which the people enjoyed under it, saying, that he was resolved to keep the nation from being imbrued in blood. I said that I was of the opinion too much blood had already been shed, unless there were a better account of it. "You do well," said he, "to charge us with the guilt of blood; but we think there is a good return for what hath been shed."
- Edmund Ludlow Interview with Cromwell (August 1656)
- His body was wel compact and strong, his stature under 6 foote ( I beleeve about two inches) his head so shaped, as you might see it a storehouse and shop both of vast tresury of natural parts. His temper exceeding fyery as I have known, but the flame of it kept downe, for the most part, or soon allayed with those moral endowments he had. He was naturally compassionate towards objects in distresse, even to an effeminate measure; though God had made him a heart, wherein was left little roume for any feare, but what was due to himselfe, of which there was a large proportion, yet did he exceed in tenderness towards suffrerers. A larger soule, I thinke, hath seldom dwelt in a house of clay than his was.
- John Maidston in a letter to John Winthrop (24 March 1659)
- Of late I have not given so free and full a power unto (Cromwell) as formerly I did, because I heard that he used his power so as in honour I could not avow him in it....for his expressions were sometimes against the nobility, that he hoped to live to see never a nobleman in England, and he loved such (and such) better than others because they did not love Lords. And he further expressed himself with contempt of the Assemberly of Divines...these he termed persecutors, and that they persecuted honester men than themselves.
- Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester, Letter to the House of Lord's (December 1644)
- So restless Cromwell could not cease
In the inglorious Arts of Peace,
But through adventrous war,
Urged his active star...
To ruine the great work of time,
And cast the kingdom old
Into another Mold...
- Andrew Marvell in An Horation Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland
- Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud,
Not of war only, but detractions rude,
Guided by faith and matchless fortitude,
To peace and truth thy glorious way has ploughed
And on the neck of crowned fortune proud
Has reared God's trophies, and his work pursued,
While Darwen stream with blood of Scots imbrued,
And Dunbar field resounds thy praises loud,
And Worcester's laureate wreath. Yet much remains
To conquer still; peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war: new foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains:
Help us to save free conscience from the paw
Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
- John Milton, Sonnet XVI, "To the Lord General Cromwell"
- I've been dreaming of a time when the English are sick to death of Labour and Tories and spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him and will salute him forever.
- Morrissey in the song "Irish Blood, English Heart"
- He has arrogated to himself despotic authority and the actual sovereignty of these realms under the mask of humility and the public service....Obedience and submission were never so manifest in England as at present,...their spirits are so crushed..yet...they dare not rebel and only murmur under their breath, though all live in hope of the fulfilment one day of the prophecies foretelling a change of rule ere long.
- Lorenzo Paulucci, Venetian Secretary in England, to Giovanni Sagredo, Venetian Ambassador in France, (21 February 1654)
- At dinner we talked much of Cromwell, all saying he was a brave fellow and did owe his crown he got to himself, as much as any man that ever got one.
- Samuel Pepys, Diary, (8 February 1667)
- He was a practical mystic, the most formidable and terrible of all combinations, uniting an aspiration derived from the celestial and supernatural with the energy of a mighty man of action; a great captain, but off the field seeming, like a thunderbolt, the agent of greater forces than himself; no hypocrite, but a defender of the faith; the raiser and maintainer of the Empire of England.
- Lord Rosebery as quoted in The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1937) by Wilbur Cortez Abbott
- The Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and of the Dominions thereunto belonging, shall be and reside in one person, and the people assembled in parliament; the style of which person shall be "The Lord Protector of the Commonwealth"… That Oliver Cromwell, Captain General of the forces of England, Scotland and Ireland, shall be, and is hereby declared to be, Lord Protector...for his life.
- Decree by the Instrument of Government (16 December 1653)
- Lieutenant-General Cromwell...a member of the House of Commons, long famous for godliness and zeal to his country, of great note for his service in the House, accepted of a commission at the very beginning of this war, wherein he served his country faithfully, and it was observed God was with him, and he began to be renowned.
- Joshua Sprigge in Anglia Rediviva (1647)
- It was three hundred years ago, in October 1656, that George Fox had a memorable interview with Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England. It was one of the great moments of a great century, for here, face to face, were two of the most powerful personalities of the age, the one the military dictator of the British Isles at the pinnacle of his worldly power, the other a crude, rustic preacher who had just spent eight months in one of England's foulest prisons. They met in Whitehall, at the very heart of the British government. Fox bluntly took the Protector to task for persecuting Friends when he should have protected them. Then characteristically he set about trying to make a Quaker out of Cromwell, to turn him to "the light of Christ who had enlightened every man that cometh into the world." Cromwell was in an argumentative mood and took issue with Fox's theology, but Fox had no patience with his objections. "The power of God riz in me," he wrote, "and I was moved to bid him lay down his crown at the feet of Jesus."
Cromwell knew what Fox meant, for two years earlier he had received a strange and disturbing missive in which he had read these words:
- God is my witness, by whom I am moved to give this forth for the Truth's sake, from him whom the world calls George Fox; who is the son of God who is sent to stand a witness against all violence and against all the works of darkness, and to turn people from the darkness to the light, and to bring them from the occasion of the war and from the occasion of the magistrate's sword...
- The man who persisted in calling himself the "son of God"— he later acknowledged that he had many brothers — was demanding nothing less than that the military ruler of all England should forthwith disavow all violence and all coercion, make Christ's law of love the supreme law of the land, and substitute the mild dictates of the Sermon on the Mount for the Instrument of Government by which he ruled. In a word, Fox would have him make England a kind of pilot project for the Kingdom of Heaven. Fox was a revolutionary. He had no patience with the relativities and compromises of political life. His testimony was an uncompromising testimony for the radical Christian ethic of love and non-violence, and he would apply it in the arena of politics as in every other sphere of life. It is not recorded that Cromwell took his advice.
- Frederick B. Tolles, in his address "Quakerism and Politics" (9 November 1956)
- Whilst he was curious of his own words, (not putting forth too many lest they should betray his thoughts) he made others talk until he had, as it were, sifted them, and known their most intimate designs.
- Sir William Waller in Recollections
- As for that famous and magnanimous commander, Lieutenant-General Cromwell, whose prowess and prudence, as they have rendered him most renowned for many former successful deeds of chivalry, so in this fight they have crowned him with the never withering laurels of fame and honour, who with so lion-like courage and impregnable animosity, charged his proudest adversaries again and again, like a Roman Marcellus indeed....and at last came off, as with some wounds, so with honour and triumph inferior to none.
- John Vicars, Magnalia Dei Anglicana Or England's Parliamentary-Chronicle (1646)
- I... had occasion to converse with Mr Cromwell's physician, Dr Simcott, who assured me that for many years his patient was a most splenetick man and had phansies about the cross in that town; and that he had been called up to him at midnight, and such unseasonable hours very many times, upon a strong phansy, which made him belive he was then dying; and there went a story of him, that in the day-time, lying melancholy in his bed, he belived the spirit appeared to him, and told him he should be the greatest man, (not mentioning the word King) in this Kingdom. Which his uncle, Sir Thomas Steward, who left him all the little estate Cromwell had, told him was traiterous to relate.
- Sir Philip Warwick in Memoirs of Sir Philip Warwick
- As to your own person the title of King would be of no advantage, because you have the full Kingly power in you already... I apprehend indeed, less envy and danger, and pomp, but not less power, and real opportunities of doing good in your being General than would be if you had assumed the title of King.
- Bulstrode Whitelocke to Cromwell as reported in Whitelocke's Memorialls of English Affairs
- He would sometimes be very cheerful with us, and laying aside his greatness he would be exceeding familiar with us, and by way of diversion would make verses with us, and everyone must try his fancy. He commonly called for tobacco, pipes, and a candle, and would now and then take tobacco himself; then he would fall again to his serious and great business.
- Bulstrode Whitelocke in Memorialls of English Affairs
- In short, every beast hath some evil properties; but Cromwell hath the properties of all evil beasts.
- Archbishop John Williams to King Charles at Oxford, as quoted in Life of Archbishop Williams by Hackett
- The English monster, the center of mischief, a shame to the British Chronicle, a pattern for tyranny, murder and hypocrisie, whose bloody Tyranny will quite drown the name of Nero, Caligula, Domitian, having at last attained the height of his Ambition, for Five years space he wallowed in the blood of many Gallant and Heroick Persons.
- William Winstanley, Loyal Martyrology as quoted in Conflicts with Oblivion (1935) by Wilbur Cortez Abbott, p. 159
External links[edit]
- Cromwell Biography at BBC
- Cromwell Association
- Cromwell biography at Britannia.com
- Cromwell biography at Internet Modern History Source Book
- Cromwell biography at British Civil Wars
- Brief biography at the Victoria Web
- Military related Oliver Cromwell quotes


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Being on Twitter really pays off! I found Linda Frank author of After the Auction on Twitter. Saw her tweet about her talk at the SFBAJGS so I decided to pay a special visit. The meeting was held at Beth Israel in South San Francisco, a drive I have taken before to a nearby golf course.
As soon as I walked into the meeting, I got stares and questions of "are you in the right place?" I am Asian female so definitely looked a bit out of place….in a Synagogue. After I explained my reason for being there "searching for a Jewish great great grandfather"…I was welcomed with open arms.
Some random observations:
1. Only Asian
2. Youngest attendee by at least about 15-20 years (I always knew I'm mature for my age)
3. Everyone is passionate about Jewish genealogy
I walked away with so many resources and even got invited to a American Jewish Committee of San Francisco Board Meeting on my birthday on July 18 by Linda Frank. I accepted the invitation immediately. There is also a Jewish library that I will need to check out….
Everyone that I have met so far has been so supportive of my search….can't wait to dive in more deeply.
Thank you also to Janice Sellers for sending along the contact info of Peter Nash, a famous China Jews expert…
Until next time…:)

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Distributed and Automated Testsystem
From coreboot
coreboot has a distributed and automated test system which allows to execute an extensive set of tests on each coreboot image generated by the Automatic coreboot Build System.
- Slides: Distributed Test Environment for coreboot
- Test Integration Manual: How to get your mainboard(s) into the test system, how to add new components to the test system
- Developers Manual: How to use the test system as a coreboot developer
These specifications have been written with IEEE standards 829 and 830 in mind, but might not (yet) comply 100% to these standards.
- coreboot v2.0 requirements specification - initial version
- coreboot v2.0 test specification


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This leaflet is for anyone who wants to know more about ECT
(Electro-convulsive therapy). It looks at how ECT works, why it is
used, its effects and side-effects, and alternative treatments.
Although a safe and effective treatment, ECT remains
controversial and we have included some of the different views
about it.
Where there are areas of uncertainty, we have listed other
sources of information that you can use. Important concerns are the
effectiveness and side-effects of ECT and how it compares with
other treatments. At the time of writing, these references are
available free and in full on the Internet.
ECT is a treatment for a small number of severe mental
illnesses. It was developed in the 1930s and was used widely during
the 1950s and 1960s for a variety of conditions. It is now only
used for fewer, more serious conditions.
An electrical current is passed through the brain to produce an
epileptic fit – hence the name, electro-convulsive. On the face of
it, this sounds odd. The idea developed in the days before
effective medication. Doctors noticed that some people with
depression or schizophrenia, who also had epilepsy, seemed to feel
better after having a fit.
More recent research suggests that the effect is due to the fit
rather than the electrical current.
It is now used less often. Between 1985 and 2002, its use in
England more than halved, possibly because of better psychological
and drug treatments for depression.
No-one is certain how ECT works. We do know that it can change
patterns of blood flow through the brain and change the metabolism
of areas of the brain which may be affected by depression. There is
evidence that severe depression is caused by problems with certain
brain chemicals. It is thought that ECT causes the release of these
chemicals and, probably more importantly, makes the chemicals more
likely to work and so help recovery.
Recent research has also suggested that ECT can help the growth
of new cells and nerve pathways in certain areas of the brain.
It has been suggested that ECT works not because of the fit, but
because of all the other things – like the extra attention, support
and the anaesthetic – that happen to someone who has it.
Several studies have compared standard ECT with "sham" or
placebo ECT. In placebo ECT, the patient has exactly the same
things done to them – including going to the ECT rooms and having
the anaesthetic and muscle relaxant – but no electrical current is
passed and there is no fit. In these studies, the patients who had
standard ECT were much more likely to recover, and did so more
quickly than those who had the placebo treatment. Those who didn't
have adequate fits did less well than those who did. Some of the
patients who had "sham" treatment recovered too, even though they
were very unwell; it's clear that the extra support does help.
However, ECT has been shown to have an extra effect in severe
depression – it seems, in the short term, to be more helpful than
Someone who has severe depression, resistant mania or catatonia.
ECT should be considered for the rapid treatment of severe
depression that is life-threatening, or when other treatments have
It should not be used routinely in moderate depression, although
it can be helpful for someone with moderate depression if they
have not responded to several different drug treatments and
psychological treatment.
There is research to suggest that ECT may help some patients
with Parkinson's disease or with the side-effects of some
psychiatric medications.
ECT is unlikely to help someone with mild to moderate depression
or most other psychiatric conditions. It is not routinely used
in the treatment of schizophrenia, though some patients with very
resistant illnesses may be helped by it, alongside medication for
their condition.
ECT has been shown to be the most effective treatment for severe
depression. It would normally be offered if:
ECT involves several treatments spread over a few weeks. As with
any treatment, ECT can cause a number of side-effects. Some of
these are mild and some are more severe.
Immediately after ECT, many people have a headache and some
aching in their muscles. They may feel muzzy-headed and generally
out of sorts, or even a bit sick. Some become distressed after the
treatment and may be tearful or frightened during recovery. For
most people, however, these effects settle within a few hours,
particularly with help and support from nursing staff, simple pain
killers and some light refreshment.
There may be some temporary loss of memory for the time
immediately before and after the ECT.
An older person may be confused for two or three hours after a
treatment. This can be reduced by changing the way the ECT is given
(such as passing the current over only one side of the brain rather
than across the whole brain).
ECT causes contraction of the jaw muscles. Although the ECT Team
will do all they can to minimise the risks, there remains a small
chance of damage to the tongue, teeth and lips. There are
particular risks where the teeth are less strong: for example if
you have crowns, veneers, or implants, also bridges and partial
dentures. Please let the team know have had cosmetic dental work or
piercings undertaken.
There is a small physical risk from having a general anaesthetic
– death or serious injury occurs in about 1 in 80,000 treatments,
about the same as if you have an anaesthetic for dental treatment.
However, as ECT is given in a course of treatments, the risk per
course of treatment will be around 1 in 10 000.
Memory problems can be a longer-term side effect. Surveys
conducted by doctors and clinical staff usually find a low level of
severe side-effects, maybe around 1 in 10. Patient-led surveys have
found much more, maybe in half of those having ECT. Some surveys
conducted by those strongly against ECT say there are severe
side-effects in everyone.
Some memory problems are probably present in everyone receiving
ECT. Most people feel better after the course of ECT has finished
and a few weeks have passed. However, some people do complain that
their memory has been permanently affected, that their memories
never come back. It is not clear how much of this is due to the
ECT, and how much is due to the depressive illness or other
Some people have complained of more distressing experiences,
such as feeling that their personalities have changed, that they
have lost skills or that they are no longer the person they were
before ECT. They say that they have never got over the experience
and feel permanently harmed.
What seems to be generally agreed is that the more ECT someone
is given, the more it is likely to affect their memory.
Most people who are ill enough to require to ECT will be unfit
to drive. After a course of ECT you should discuss with your doctor
when you are well enough to resume driving. Sometimes
disorientation and impaired visual functioning may go on for
several months after ECT.
Given time, some episodes of severe depression will get better
on their own, although being severely depressed carries a real risk
of death by suicide.
Like any significant treatment in medicine or surgery, you will
be asked to give consent, or permission for the ECT to be done.
The doctor should explain (in a way that you can understand)
their reasons for suggesting ECT, the possible benefits and any
side-effects. If you decide to go ahead, you then sign a consent
form. It is a record that ECT has been explained to you, that you
understand what is going to happen, and that you give your consent
to it. However, you can withdraw your consent at any point, even
before the first treatment.
If you have very strong feelings about ECT, you should tell the
doctors and nurses caring for you, but also friends, family or an
advocate who can speak for you.
Doctors must consider your views when deciding what to do.
If you have made it clear that you do not want to have ECT, then
you should not be given it, except in special circumstances (see
below). You could write an 'advance statement' to refuse ECT if you
become unwell again. Alternatively, you could appoint someone to be
your Health and Welfare Attorney to make decisions on your behalf
when you are not able to decide for yourself.
Most ECT treatments are given to people who have agreed to it.
This means that they have had:
You cannot usually be given ECT against your wishes, even if you
sectioned under the Mental Health Act. It is the responsibility
of the doctors and nurses involved to make sure that they have
discussed this with you – and to document it.
Sometimes, you can become so unwell that you can't understand
the information about ECT – if you are very withdrawn or have ideas
that stop you from understanding your position (e.g you believe
that your depression is a punishment you deserve).
In this situation, it may be impossible to give proper agreement
or consent. When this happens, it is still possible to give ECT.
The legal provisions for this differ from country to country, even
within the United Kingdom.
In England and Wales, ECT can be given under the Mental
Health Act. This means that two doctors and another
professional, who is usually a social worker, need to agree that
ECT should be given.
There must then be a second opinion from an independent
specialist who is not directly involved in the person's care. The
clinical team should also speak to family and other carers, to find
out what they think about ECT, but also to find out if the patient
had any opinion about it.
Sometimes - if a person doesn't have the capacity to give an
informed consent - the team may decide the ECT can be given under
the Mental
Capacity Act. This is unusual, as in most cases, the Mental
Health Act provides the best protection for a patient's rights. The
Mental Capacity Act can only be used if the patient lacks capacity
and a "decision maker" (usually the consultant in charge of their
care) decides that ECT is in the patient's "best interests".
It is expected the decision maker will ask other people to try
to find out what the person's views would have been. This would
usually include family members and other people close to them. The
decision maker should also make "all reasonable attempts" to help
the patient to regain capacity to consent (if this is possible). An
independent specialist is not needed, though the clinical team may
request a second opinion from another consultant.
Whether ECT is given under the Mental Health Act or the Mental
Capacity Act, the team must make regular assessments of the
patient's ability to understand their treatment. Once the patient
is able to give consent, the treatment can only continue if they do
consent and must stop if they refuse.
In Scotland, the principles above are the same, although the
laws involved are the Mental Heath
(Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Adults
With Incapacity Act (Scotland) 2000.
ECT is always given in hospital. As it is generally used in
severe depression, you would usually need to stay in hospital. Some
people do have ECT as a day patient, but you may need to check if
your local service can do this.
The seizure is brought on by passing an electrical current
across the brain in a carefully controlled way from a special ECT
By adjusting the dose of electricity, the ECT team will try to
produce a seizure lasting between 20 and 50 seconds.
In the days before you start a course of ECT, your doctor will
arrange for you to have some tests to make sure it is safe for you
to have a general anaesthetic. These may include:
You will be asked not to have anything to eat or drink for 6
hours before the ECT. This is so that the anaesthetic can be given
ECT should always be done in a special set of rooms that are not
used for any other purpose, usually called the "ECT suite". This
should be a separate area where you wait, have your treatment, wake
up fully from the anaesthetic and then recover properly before
There should be enough qualified staff to look after you while
you are there so that they can help you through any confusion or
In bilateral ECT, the electrical current is passed across the
whole brain
In unilateral ECT, the current is just passed across one side.
Both of them cause a seizure in the whole of the brain.
Bilateral ECT seems to work more quickly and
effectively and it's probably the most widely used in Britain;
however, there has been concern that it may cause more
Unilateral ECT is now used less. It had been
thought to cause less memory loss, but recent research has shown
that it is necessary to use larger doses of electricity to make it
as effective as bilateral ECT. If the dose of electricity is
increased to make it equally effective, the risks of memory loss
are as great as with bilateral ECT.
Sometimes ECT clinics will start a course of treatment with
bilateral ECT and switch to unilateral if the patient experiences
side-effects. Alternatively, they may start with unilateral and
switch to bilateral if the person isn't getting better.
You may wish to speak to the doctor who is suggesting ECT for
you to decide whether unilateral or bilateral ECT is best for
Most units give ECT twice per week, often on a Monday and
Thursday, or Tuesday and Friday. It is impossible to predict how
many treatments someone will need. However, in general, it will
take 2 or 3 treatments before you see any difference, and 4 to 5
treatments for noticeable improvement.
A course will on average be 6 to 8 treatments, although as many
as 12 may be needed, particularly if you have been depressed for a
long time. If, after 12 treatments, you feel no better, it is
unlikely that ECT is going to help and the course would usually
stop. A member of the mental health team should check after each
treatment to see how your are responding, and to check that you are
not getting troublesome side-effects. Your consultant should see
you after every two treatments. ECT should be stopped as soon as
you have made a recovery, or if you say you don't want to have it
any more.
Even when someone finds it effective, ECT is only a part of
recovering from depression. Like
antidepressants, it can help to ease problems so you are able
to look at why you became unwell. Hopefully you can then take steps
to continue your recovery, and perhaps find ways to make sure the
situation doesn't happen again.
Psychotherapy and counselling can help and many people find
their own ways to help themselves. Certainly people who have ECT,
and then do not have other forms of help, are likely to quickly
become unwell again.
There are many areas in which people disagree over ECT,
including whether it should even be done at all. People tend to
have very strong feelings about ECT, often based on their own
experiences. The main areas of disagreement are over whether it
works, how it works and what the side-effects are.
ECT is now used much less and is mostly a treatment for severe
depression. This is almost certainly because modern treatments for
depression are much more effective than they were in the past.
These include psychotherapy (talking treatments), antidepressants
and other psychological and social supports.
Even so, depression can for some people still be very severe and
even life-threatening. The person may be barely able to talk,
reluctant (or unable) to eat, drink or look after themselves.
Occasionally a person may also develop strange ideas (delusions)
about themselves or others. If other treatments have not have
worked, it may be worth considering ECT. It is a safe and effective
treatment for severe depression.
In 2003 researchers analysed all the work which had been done on
patients' experiences of ECT. They found that the proportion of
people who had had ECT and found it helpful ranged from 30% to 80%.
The researchers commented that studies reporting lower satisfaction
tended to have been conducted by patients, and those reporting
higher satisfaction were carried out by doctors. Between 30% and
50% of patients complained of difficulties with memory after
Many doctors and nurses will say that they have seen ECT relieve
very severe depressive illnesses when other treatments have failed.
Bearing in mind that 15% of people with severe depression will kill
themselves, they feel that ECT has saved patients' lives, and
therefore the overall benefits are greater than the risks. Some
people who have had ECT will agree, and may even ask for it if they
find themselves becoming depressed again.
There are different views and reasons why people object to ECT.
Some see ECT as a treatment that belongs to the past. They say that
the side-effects are severe and that psychiatrists have, either
accidentally or deliberately, ignored how severe they can be. They
say that ECT permanently damages both the brain and the mind, and
if it does work at all, does so in a way that is ultimately harmful
for the patient. Some would want to see it banned.
At the moment, ECT is part of standard psychiatric practice in
Britain and the majority of countries worldwide. Some countries
(and some states in America also) have restricted its use more than
in the UK, though only a few have prohibited its use.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has set up the
ECT Accreditation Service (ECTAS) to provide an independent
assessment of the quality of ECT services. ECTAS sets very high
standards for ECT, and visits all the ECT units who have registered
with it. The visiting team involves psychiatrists, anaesthetists,
and nurses. It publishes the results of its findings and also
provides a forum for sharing best clinical practice. Membership of
ECTAS is not compulsory, but every ECT unit should be able to tell
A list of accredited site is available on the
Royal College of Psychiatrists'
Many ECT suites provide their own information packs. They should
be able to give written information to you or your
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Scottish ECT Accreditation Network (SEAN): A site
designed to complement the work of SEAN, by enabling communication
of the latest information on ECT in Scotland.
Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Services
(ECTAS): Launched in May 2003, ECTAS aims to assure
and improve the quality of the administration of ECT; awards an
accreditation rating to clinics that meet essential standard.
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Electroconvulsive therapy reduces frontal connectivity in severe
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J. (2003) Patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy:
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Therapy: Survey covering the period from January 2002 to March
2002, England. DH: London.
A list of accredited facilities is available on the
Royal College of Psychiatrists' website.
This leaflet was produced by the Royal College of Psychiatrists'
Special Committee on ECT and related treatments and Public
Engagement Editorial Board.
Series: Dr Philip Timms
Original author: Dr Richard Barnes
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Authorities have arrested two eastern Ohio girls suspected of making social media threats against a West Virginia girl who accused two high school football players of raping her in a case that drew widespread attention.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the girls arrested Monday posted threatening Facebook and Twitter comments on Sunday, the day the players were convicted in Steubenville (STOO'-behn-vihl). DeWine says the girls are being held in juvenile detention on allegations of aggravated menacing after an investigation by state and local authorities.
DeWine says he hopes the arrests end harassment of the alleged victim.
A judge sentenced the players to at least a year in juvenile prison. A grand jury will look into whether others broke the law by not speaking up after the attack last summer.
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Leslie Stephen Wright
The following biographical sketch was compiled at the time of induction into the Academy in 1973.
Leslie Stephen Wright returned to his native Birmingham in 1958 to become president of Samford University, thus climaxing a career that began as a teacher and coach and continued through work in industry, government, and church. During World War II he was State Director of the Civilian Production Administration, and served as an officer in Naval Intelligence. In 1946 he became Deputy State Director of Alabama Savings Bond Division for the Treasury Department. From 1950 to 1954 he was Executive Secretary to Senator Lister Hill. In 1954 he became Executive Secretary of the Baptist Foundation of Alabama.
He also has served on the Citizens Advisory Commission for Jefferson County, as president of the Southwide Association of Baptist Foundation Executives, 1958, as Secretary-Treasurer of the Conference of Church Related Colleges of the South, 1963; as president of the Alabama Writers Conclave, 1965-67; as chairman of the Alabama Selection Committee for Rhodes Scholars, 1965-66; as chairman of the Jefferson County United Appeal Campaign, 1966; as vice chairman of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, 1964-65. He was president of the Alabama Historical Association, 1964-65, president to the Birmingham Executive Club, 1964-65, president of the Birmingham Rotary Club, 1966-67, president of the Alabama Association of Independent Colleges, 1960-63, and served as president of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools in 1968.
Dr. Wright received the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Honor Medal three times and the Vigilant Patriots Award from the All American Conference to Combat Communism, and was awarded honorary degrees by Auburn University and the University of Alabama.
He was married to the former Lolla Catherine Wurtele and had two sons, Leslie Stephen and John King.
Dr. Wright died in 1997.


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Web design has to do with the way in which the content of a website is arranged. A website is a group of common webpages which content includes text, images, sounds and others, and should be ideally presented in a fashion that will appeal to the intended user, as well facilitate their interaction with the website. There are many different kinds of websites, including personal, commercial , government, non profit organization, affiliate, archive, answer, blogs, celebrity, community, content, corporate, dating, e-commerce, forum, gaming, humor, news, political, rating, religious, review, school, social networking and wiki websites. Regardless of the type of site however, the main objective is to lure visitors, and that is where web design comes in. In order to make a site both attractive and accessible, a series of principles may be followed, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and basic website planning. You can learn more about these website design related concepts right here at Threedozen.com.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Also known as WCAG, these guidelines were developed by the World Wide Web Consortium with the goal of making web content accessible to disabled users in particular, and all users in general. Some of the web design standards included in this initiative are the use of semantic markup, a valid markup language, and hyperlinks. Semantic markup is strongly based on the concept of separation of presentation and content. The main objective of this website design concept is machine readability. While this refers to enabling machines, such as robots and crawlers, to discriminate meaning, machine readability ultimately benefits human users by presenting information to a greater quantity and variety of users. This is similar to the form versus function debate, where some consider these two terms to be mutually exclusive, whereas other believe that form follows function. Ideally, a balance between the two should be accomplished.
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Nike Surges Most Since 2011 as Margins, China Rebound
The shares rose 11 percent to $59.53 at the close in New York for the largest gain since Oct. 28, 2008. Nike has advanced 15 percent this year, compared with a 9.1 percent gain in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Price increases enacted last year finally paid off for the Beaverton, Oregon-based company as its gross margin widened for the first time in nine quarters. Meanwhile, the company reported that orders for the Nike brand in China, excluding changes in currency exchange rates, gained after sales there sank 10 percent last quarter for a second straight decline.
"Nike is firing on all cylinders right now," said Brian Yarbrough, an analyst for Edward Jones & Co. in St. Louis, who has a hold rating on the shares. "They've been talking about, for several years now, expecting gross margins to eventually turn. And now it looks like that has played out."
The gain in gross margin came in the fiscal third quarter ended Feb. 28, when earnings from continuing operations rose 16 percent to $662 million, or 73 cents a share, from $569 million, or 61 cents, a year earlier, Nike said yesterday in a statement. Analysts projected 67 cents a share, the average of 20 estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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The company gave an initial forecast for fiscal 2014 that was in line with analysts' estimates. Sales will increase in the mid-single-digit percentage range, and adjusted earnings per share will advance a mid-teen percentage. Analysts projected gains on average of 7 percent for revenue and 14 percent for earnings per share.
Several analysts raised their price estimates for Nike following the results. Those included Citigroup Inc.'s Kate McShane, who raised her estimate from $65 to $62. Nike is showing earlier signs of improvement in gross margin and China than expected, McShane said yesterday in a note to clients.
She has a buy rating on Nike shares.
Orders for the Nike brand in all regions from March to July, excluding currency exchange-rate changes, advanced 7 percent. Analysts projected a gain of 4.7 percent, the average of seven estimates compiled by Bloomberg. A year ago, orders surged 18 percent. The 3 percent gain in orders from China topped estimates for a decline of 4.3 percent, which would have been the third straight drop.
While the increase in China orders is a sign the company is on the right track, sales growth in that region in the current quarter will be slower than growth in orders, Chief Financial Officer Don Blair said on a call with analysts.
Inventory Clearing
The company has blamed its declining sales in China on a glut of apparel and a slowing economy. To revive growth, Nike has been clearing old items with discounts and designing new wares for the market. Because the clearing of inventory will continue and it plans to reduce the amount of clothes shipped into the country, orders won't reflect sales, Blair said.
"While we're making progress, we're not done yet," Blair said. "It's going to take a couple of quarters to work this out."
Revenue last quarter rose 9.4 percent to $6.2 billion, meeting estimates. While sales declined in China and Japan, Nike's largest market of North America remained a strength, with revenue gaining 18 percent.
Sales in this quarter will increase at a mid-single-digit percentage rate. Analysts projected a gain of 2 percent.
Nike's plan to improve profitability, which included raising prices to counter higher costs for labor and materials, worked as gross margin, or the percentage of sales left after subtracting the cost of goods sold, widened to 44.2 percent from 43.9 percent a year earlier. It forecast an expansion of 0.5 percentage points in this quarter.
Net income in the quarter of $866 million included a gain of $204 million from the sale of Cole Haan to Apax Partners.


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A few hours more and everyone can enjoy some delicious Comet cake.
And I totally did not start the chapter with Henry the Fifth.
What can I say, I did actually act out Shakespeare.
I need Major Christopher icon now.
|2012-12-21, 14:33
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Now that's what I'd say would be a quote that fits or sets the tone for the chapter.
And now that it's officially out I can now congratulate you on that Chapter, pat myself on the back for being a pretty decent BETA () and breathe a sigh of relief that it's over. Now to touchup the Middle chapters. XD
And then once that's done, it'll be time for me to work on the saga of Lipan Squadron...
|2012-12-21, 19:29
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Truth Martyr
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The connection should not require hard thinking.
But as always, you obviously know better; you may do as you please. It is your fanfic, afterall.
|2012-12-21, 19:37
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The thing, though, is the quote on its own has nothing to do with the source material of the quote. If you just know a little bit about what happens in the fanfic and the character it revolves around, it's really easy to understand how it relates to Hisako Kanemoto talking about barriers which are invincible.
You certainly know how to turn anything around into a Hagoshod Haet Thread.
|2012-12-21, 23:06
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Truth Martyr
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Thing is, on the face of it there is a jarring disconnect. Happy Barrier? Invincibility? In Alternative? It creates such a jarring feel. Now if you'd started with "Once more unto the breach", for example, that gives off a feel that is less jarring. As another example, one chapter of Tiberium Wars opens with a poem by Alan Seegar - "I have a rendezvous with Death, at some disputed barricade" - that perfectly captures the grim desperation of the Pentagon siege.
But you have your heart set on that quote, and you obviously wish to use it, no matter how jarring it may be.
You ask for my opinion and I have given it. What more do you want?
The world does not revolve around you, nor this persecution complex you appear to be laboring under.
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Hagoshod, your entire presence around these parts has for the most part been focused around showing myself and other posters how we are wrong and you know better. A jab it may be, but it is also the truth.
I just call it the way I see it.
Also, I realise that it may be difficult for you to do so, but I do wish you would not misrepresent me so. You were the one who started this whole tangent of Hagoshod Haet Thread, and I never claimed you were imagining things, or that you were deranged. I simply pointed out that I do not need to do anything of the sort, because you'll do a good enough job of things by yourself.
I do urge you to reread and comprehend what has been stated, though I fear this may be a futile endeavour, as you appear determined to find insult in all things.
Now, as for the quote you wish to use, my opinion, that you have sought, is that it does not work for that chapter, because it creates a jarring feel. It is akin to Thorin's company singing their song with a cheery beat and instruments: it clashes horribly with the mood that has been set.
However, you strongly desire to use that quote: at the end of the day it is your story, and as you obviously feel that you know your story better than I do (and this can be seen in your responses), then by all means, act as you please. You are writing for your gratification, not mine.
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|2012-12-22, 10:24
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Truth Martyr
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... what, no love for Wild Goose the BETA editor?
That said, I personally don't think it's going to be that happy:
Spoiler for Speculation for Yuuya's fate:
Also, now that it's officially out, I'm quite pleased to state that I've been helping AMT to BETA edit Comet, and the Prologue and Chapter 1 have been edited. Work is progressing on Chapters 2-4. 5 was edited by yours truly.
*basks in happiness, not noticing there's a Soldier-kun behind him*
|2012-12-22, 22:43
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Speaking of fics...
anyone read Lunatic Lunarian?
One of the better ones around it seems, and it is indeed quite good
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sorry just got overboard and posted in the character page ...
( Any chance that going to see Cryka & Inia in Final extra with Papa Sandek scheming to take over Kotobuki (Kotobukiya) and A4 ( A3) making only russian Valge-on mecha/TSF and over price all US/Euro/Japan/ TSF/Valge-on
Yuuya ala Phoenix wright OBJECTION!!!!!
Which tries to get the aid of BANZAI( Bandai) Which Mitsurgi Zaibatsu has tries with. a certain Iwaya Eiji works a division chief, then Inform the Mitsurugi Twins about this matter..... Takeru and gang gets involved ..... And by the way A certain Kouhai form Hakuryou named Tatsunami Hibiki which was accidentally drag in the ensuing chaos ( By the Hibiki loves Kamen Raiders and even has his on special move " Final Altered form ride ... Unlimited drop maneuver ....
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First of all, thank you CJ for taking the time to always be there for us, teh fans. I love talking to artists about artistry.
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A now-retired principal twice failed to report accusations of sexual misconduct by a teacher who this week was charged with molesting 12 students at a Wilmington elementary school, officials said.
In 2002 and 2008, the principal was told that the teacher, Robert Pimentel, 57, inappropriately touched a student. But the principal failed to tell law enforcement authorities, as required by law, said L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy.
The Los Angeles Police Department began investigating Pimentel only last March, when they learned of more recent allegations at George de la Torre Jr. Elementary School.
LAPD Capt. Fabian Lizarraga said Thursday that detectives will launch an investigation into whether the principal, Irene Hinojosa, should face charges for failing to report alleged abuse. She could not be reached for comment Thursday.