"Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged."
— Oliver Cromwell

January 1, 1970

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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