It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
Harriet MartineauA Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.
Harriet Martineau