Robert Emmet Quotes

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

Infamous Greek calumnies

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.