Cromwell (1970)

Geoffrey Keen: John Pym

Quotes 

• John Pym : We would as much go back to our homes and our farms as pursue this mockery of a government one more day.

• John Pym : I say then that this House is resolved that we shall vote - no money for the King! Neither will we take up arms against our Scottish brethren unless Parliament is allowed to function as the true voice of the people of England, and not as a gathering of lackeys to the King.

• Henry Ireton : There will be a war, Mister Cromwell. It will not be with Scotland.

  John Pym : Henry...

  Oliver Cromwell : With whom, Mister Ireton?

  John Pym : Henry, we have argued this matter many times...

  Henry Ireton : I'm convinced of it.

  Oliver Cromwell : [raising his voice]  A war against whom, Mister Ireton?

  Henry Ireton : Against the king, sir.

  Oliver Cromwell : [a cold silence falls over the room]  The king? You mean a civil war? In England?

  [chuckles] 

  Oliver Cromwell : You know not the ways of this nation, Mister Ireton. Such things do not happen here.