Newton sold his Company stock for a profit in April 1720 before the bubble burst; but purchased new stock a few months later and lost 20,000 ...

I believe Mr Humphrey also said the following: "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously"

By the way, here's another related quote by Clemenceau: "It suffices to add 'military' to a word to make it lose its meaning. So 'military justice' is not justice, and 'military music' is not music. [ "Il suffit d'ajouter 'militaire' á un mot pour lui faire perdre sa signification. Ainsi la justice militaire n'est pas la justice, la musique militaire n'est pas la musique" ]

Swift is here reformulating a much older quotation from the Greek poet Anacharsis (sixth century BC): "Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful." Swift is certainly not plagiarising or passing off on his own - the Anacharsis quote would have been so familiar in his day that there would have been no question of plagiarism.