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Libel Quotes

1.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Abraham Lincoln

Authors on Libel Quotes: John Selden Lee Kuan Yew Edward Coke Michael R. Burch Gilbert K. Chesterton Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Mark Russell Bill Moyers Mark Twain Mahatma Gandhi Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Giono Larry Kramer Abraham Lincoln
2.
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Bill Moyers

3.
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

4.
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
Jean Giono

5.
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
Edward Coke

6.
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
Mark Russell

7.
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
John Selden

8.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

9.
Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
Mahatma Gandhi

10.
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
Lee Kuan Yew

11.
If God is good half the Bible is libel.
Michael R. Burch

12.
There isn't any way to libel the human race.
Mark Twain

13.
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

14.
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
Larry Kramer