Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by John Hampden

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English politician John Hampden.
Last updated on December 12, 2024.
John Hampden

John Hampden was an English landowner and politician whose opposition to arbitrary taxes imposed by Charles I made him a national figure. An ally of Parliamentarian leader John Pym, and cousin to Oliver Cromwell, he was one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War.

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty. — © John Hampden
May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.
What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse
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