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)
Quotations by:
Defoe, Daniel
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)
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"
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)
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)
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)
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
Ecclesiastic tyrannyDaniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
The True-Born Englishman, Part 2 (1701)