Smear Campaign Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They're untrue. And they're misrepresentations.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

An attack is always a smear when it is directed against you.

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

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.

I do have some very strong thoughts on Glenn Simpson, who is one of the founders of Fusion GPS, based on his conduct in trying to discredit me and Sergei Magnitsky.

When you are in the government, you have to demonise your opposition.

Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

Deny what they didn't charge and charge what they can't deny.... If it's our charge, we're revealing the facts; if it's theirs, it's a smear.

Is it now a crime for someone falsely accused to be upset about it? Mueller presumes guilt and then refuses to 'exonerate' President Trump. This turns our legal system upside down and shows the rule of law is no bar to smearing President Trump.

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

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

We will not hesitate to discredit you.