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This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
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After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town". (1649)

 

Oliver Cromwell

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The righteous will claim sole domain on judgment. The righteous are the first t make hands into fists, the first to shout down dissenters, the first to bully others into compliance.

 

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Oliver Cromwell