“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.”

Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 8
Context: Gossip, public, private, social — to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion — yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

Introduction https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fraud_of_Feminism/Introduction <br class="br">The Fraud of Feminism (1913)

Federalist No. 10
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)

Reacting to Tony Benn's speech that "the flag hoisted at Wolverhampton [Powell's constituency] is beginning to look like the one that fluttered over Dachau and Belsen" (3 June 1970), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 556.
1970s

Message to Congress (2 August 1977)
Presidency (1977–1981), 1977

Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931).
Judicial opinions

Speech to the Oxford Carlton Club (3 March 1922), quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), p. 147.
1920s

Source: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1963/1991, p. 27