WIST Quotations

Defoe, Daniel -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

But the Nature of the War is now alter’d,
`tis the longest Purse
Conquers the longest Sword.

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
(Attributed)

Defoe, Daniel -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

He that has Truth on his Side, is a fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it because of the Currency or Multitude of other Men’s Opinions.

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
(Attributed)

Defoe, Daniel -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

A Man that will lie still, should never hope to rise; he that will lie in a Ditch and pray, may depend upon it he shall lie in the Ditch and die.

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
(Attributed)

Backsheider: "Daniel Defoe: His Life"

Defoe, Daniel -- An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Tho’ it be of His Worse Enemies (1715)

Dave — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:44:23 +0000

I hear much of People’s calling out to punish the Guilty, but very few are concern’d to clear the Innocent.

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Tho’ it be of His Worse Enemies (1715)

Defoe, Daniel -- Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, ch. 2 (1720)

Dave — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:03:37 +0000

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, ch. 2 (1720)

Defoe, Daniel -- The True-Born Englishman (1701)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
The True-Born Englishman (1701)

Defoe, Daniel -- The True-Born Englishman, Part 2 (1701)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
Ecclesiastic tyranny

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
The True-Born Englishman, Part 2 (1701)