Libel Quotes

“A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.”

“In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.”

“Baron Humboldt asked Jefferson, "Why are these libels allowed? Why is not this libelous journal suppressed, or its editor at least, fined and imprisoned? The question gave Jefferson a perfect opening. "Put that paper in your pocket, Baron, and should you hear the reality of our liberty, the freedom of our press, questioned, show this paper, and tell where you found it.”

“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry.”

“The greater the truth the greater the libel.”

“Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.”

“Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.”

“Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.”

“I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.”