George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English general and politician.

Quotes

 * What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have.
 * During the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
 * The myth of the free market: the role of the state in a capitalist economy by Mark Anthony Martinez, p. 116

About

 * Little General Monck Sat upon a trunk, Eating a crust of bread; There fell a hot coal And burnt in his clothes a hole, Now little General Monck is dead.
 * Nursery rhyme; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed. 1997), pp365-6