“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, …[you are] enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
“In the name of God, go!”
“Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?” the future Lord Protector said. “Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation.”
~ Oliver Cromwell, speaking to the English Parliament in 1653
Four Weeks from Oblivion, GOP Congress Slumbers On
By Michael R. Shannon —— Bio and Archives—November 21, 2018
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