Quotes about Forgeries

Heywood Broun

Many American campaigns have been distinguished by dirty tactics, but I can think of none in which willful fraud has been so brazenly practiced.

Sinclair was a writer who had written about some of the worst scandals in American politics, leaned toward socialized democracy, and decided to run as a reform candidate in California where he lived. He won the Democratic primary easily even though he had no money, political experience, or backing. He terrified the Republicans who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in American History (see {619613}) to defeat him spending more money than in any election up to then including the Presidential elections. Sinclair lost, but it was close.

Greg Mitchell

The political innovation that produced the strongest impact was the manipulation of moving pictures. Alarmed by the Sinclair threat, MGM's Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg produced fake newsreels, using Hollywood actors. W.R. Hearst helped distribute them. For the first time, the screen was used to demolish a candidate, a precursor of political attack ads on television.

Sinclair was a writer who had written about some of the worst scandals in American politics, leaned toward socialized democracy, and decided to run as a reform candidate in California where he lived. He won the Democratic primary easily even though he had no money, political experience, or backing. He terrified the Republicans who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in American History to defeat him spending more money than in any election up to then including the Presidential elections. Rogers, who did not usually support individual politicians, made fun of them all, but he thought that Sinclair would be a good political leader. Sinclair lost, but it was close.

Charles Babbage

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

Umberto Eco

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Thomas Paine

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

Ty Dolla Sign

How many fake Drakes are there? How many fake Migos are there?

Edmund Burke

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Gregory Zinoviev

A settlement of relations between the two countries will assist in the revolutionizing of the international and British proletariat not less than a successful rising in any of the working districts of England, as the establishment of close contact between the British and Russian proletariat, the exchange of delegations and workers, etc. will make it possible for us to extend and develop the propaganda of ideas of Leninism in England and the Colonies

This letter caused the Labor Government of Ramsay MacDonald to lose power to the Conservatives. The Conservatives claimed that the British labor movement was in cahoots with the Russian Communists to use British unions to promote Communism and spread propaganda. In 1924 many Laborites claimed that the letter was a forgery and had been planted by the Conservatives who had pulled other dirty tricks before to smear Labor. However, all the British newspapers ran copies of the letter and Labor lost the election. Historians almost all agree that the letter is a forgery because in other parts of the letter, talking about the Russian program, several errors were made describing the Communist program at the time. Gregory Zinoviev, a high ranking member of the Russian Cominterm, would almost certainly have not made these mistakes. Regardless of the fact that it is a forgery, to this day, it is still referred to as the “Zinoviev Letter,”

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