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If we beat the King ninety-nine times, yet he is king still and so will his posterity be after him; but if the king beat us once we shall all be hanged, and our posterity made slaves.
Edward Montagu
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Edward Montagu
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Born:
1602
Died:
May 5, 1671
(aged 69)
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Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.
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