...command. " Admit he be an Anabaptist, shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing to serve it faithfully, that suffices." Six months later, after a second quarrel with Crawford on the...

...practical convenience recommended or demanded it. When he told Crawford early in the war that the state in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions, he struck the true note of toleration from the statesman's point of view. His was the practical temper...

...considered a bigot. His rule on this subject is therefore the more worthy of record : "Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom yon can object...

...Anabaptist. "Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...willing faithfully to serve it — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself. If you had done it when I...

...by religious policy. He desired to make England 1 Writing to Crawford in 1643, he says: "The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...willing faithfully to serve it— that satisfies. . . . Bear with men of different minds from yourself." Carlyle, "Cromwell's Letters and Speeches,"...

...use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself: if you had done it when I...

...wrote Cromwell in reply, "shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their...willing faithfully to serve it — that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object little...

...religious toleration laid down, very simply, by Oliver Cromwell, when he wrote : " Sir, — The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp or too easily sharpened by others against those to whom you can object little...

...religious toleration laid down, very simply, by Oliver Cromwell, when he wrote : " Sir, — -The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp or too easily sharpened by others against those to whom you can object little...

...bigot. His rule on this subject is therefore the more worthy of record : "Sir, the State, in choosingmen to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom yon can object...