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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Karl Rove
Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.
Hesiod
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.
Tryon Edwards
Learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes himself the echo of what he has heard, for if the accusation should turn out to be a calumny, he would himself become the accomplice of the slanderer.
Giacomo Casanova