The phrase ‘Trust in God and keep your powder dry’ is attributed to which historical English figure?
Trust in God and keep your powder dry Bergen Evans suggested that the phrase combined piety and practicality. The second half the phrase is often used by itself, and forms the title of the 1945 film "Keep Your Powder Dry" as well as Margaret Mead's 1942 book "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America". Trust in God and keep your powder dry "Trust in God and keep your powder dry" is a maxim attributed to Oliver Cromwell, but which first appeared in 1834 in the poem "Oliver's Advice" by William Blacker with the words "Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder
In God We Trust coins as shall admit of such motto". The similar phrase 'In God is our Trust' appears in "The Star-Spangled Banner", adopted as the national anthem of the United States in 1931. Written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, the fourth stanza includes the phrase, "And this be our motto: 'In God is our Trust'", which was adapted as the national motto. The use of "In God We Trust" has been interrupted. The motto disappeared from the five-cent coin in 1883, and did not reappear until production of the Jefferson nickel began in 1938. However, at least two