Pericles:

During the war the media was brutal on Lincoln, after his death, these same papers praised him as the savior of America:

If someone brings you word that So-and-so is speaking ill of you, do not defend yourself against what has been said, but answer, “Yes, indeed, for he did not know the rest of the faults that attach to me; if he had, these would not have been the only ones he mentioned.”