"Why did the Whigs fail to force exclusion on Charles II?."

“If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.”

“Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.”

“It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.”

“We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence.”

“Colonel Sidney's Speech, Delivered to the sheriff on the scaffold”

“Liars ought to have good memories.”