Matthew Lesko Quotes

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.

We will not hesitate to discredit you.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

A lot of people want to discredit me.

There's always someone who wants to make you look bad.

A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

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

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.