"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! It is not fit that you should sit as a Parliament any longer. You have been sat too long for any good you have been doing. You are no Parliament. I will put an end to your sitting. Call them in! Call them in!"

Oliver Cromwell, words addressed to the Rump Parliament on its forcible dissolution, 20 April 1653. The account is composite, drawn from several contemporary and near-contemporary sources including Edmund Ludlow's Memoirs.