It's a maxim not to be despised, 'Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.'


speech to Parliament, 4 September 1654, in Thomas Carlyle Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1845)

Oliver Cromwell Quotes

It's a maxim not to be despised, 'Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.'

It's a maxim not to be despised, 'Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.'

It's a maxim not to be despised, 'Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.'

It's a maxim not to be despised, 'Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.'