In The Name of God, Go!
Learning from History
KrisAnne Hall, JD
History is our greatest source of wisdom & often is our greatest source of inspiration. I teach history because I know one simple fact:
History ALWAYS repeats & it repeats very precisely. Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. Try this historical lesson on for size. Here is a speech from 1653. Does it ring true in your heart today?
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20 April 1653, London, England – Oliver Cromwell
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, and defiled by your practice of every
vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and 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.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your
conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the
Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a
den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get
grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to
your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has
given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there,
and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!
