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Quote of the Day: You Have Sat Too Long
“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately… Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” — Cromwell’s Address to the Rump Parliament (20 April 1653)
Watching any legislature in action is likely to bring out the Cromwell in any sensible man.
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Rump Parliament haha
Seems kind of redundant for any legislature.
This quote can equally apply to those of us with a sedentary lifestyle, such as, oh I don’t know, ME. The other day when I consulted my IPhone pedometer, it had the nerve to tell me that the total steps I’d taken all day was 248 (a mile is a little over 2,000 to give you an idea of how immobile I was that day).
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In the parliamentary debate of May 9, 1940 backbencher Leo Amery quoted these same words while urging Neville Chamberlain to resign, which he did the following day.
I recently mentioned Neville Chamberlain to a retired school administrator. She had never heard of him. :(
I can’t like this. Instead i’ll give it an aaggghhh!