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Dissolution of the Long Parliament
Oliver Cromwell
All governments are corrupt from the top down - bottom up, each a cesspool of the very worst human behavior and conduct. For a public to view their government as better than another proves only that those same governments will never have any real opposition to their eternal plundering. Governments exist because people are generally lazy, gullible, stupid, selfish, and stubborn -- character qualities which preempt them from coexisting; absent the need and addiction to and for, a psychotic-surrogate-parent.
When the first group of men called for a King, from that moment until this, there has never been, and never will be any peace in this world. You may fantasize about possible future versions of humanity, but until the lot of men make the conscious decision to live without government being instituted amongst them, to work together themselves for a more perfect union between their numbers, the living breathing body of this perfect union enshrined in " Property Ownership", "The Right to Bear Arms", and "Honest Weights and Measures", what has been will continue to be.
Dissolution of the Long Parliamentby Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell MP's speech on the dissolution of the Long Parliament, given to the House of Commons, 20 April 1653.
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 barter'd 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 defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd 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 redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!