Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931).
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“An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth—a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.”
On the Decay of the Art of Lying http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html
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Mark Twain 637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)
“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
Book II, Ch. 17
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“There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.”
Article 7
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)