“When a word is used to provoke hatred, it does not matter what the word actually means. What matters is only what the haters insist it means - the meaning they give it, the common prejudices they exploit.”

Source: Hamlet

Magnus Bane and Ragnor Fell in 1791, p. 9.
The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru (2013)

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Source: The Magician's Elephant

Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"

Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 2, Rights And Duties, p. 68

Grand jury testimony (August 17, 1998), answering questions about his attorney's description of an affidavit by Monica Lewinsky
1990s
Context: It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. … Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.

Source: The Princess Bride

Source: The Hammer of Thor