The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
There isn't any way to libel the human race.
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
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.
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.
