Thank you, Wounded Eagle, for the citation. The source has been updated.

Dick, I say this with all sincerity -- you are dumb. As I have explained to you several times before, we do not add any comments to the quote pages. This page was published in February 2003. Your comment was posted on April 6, 2006 at 9:08 AM. This is a BLOG, Dick, in which people add comments to pages. As the years go by, more comments are added to the page. Shall we remove ALL your comments over the years and prohibit you from commenting from here on?

Thanks, Mike. I do appreciate the thought with which you respond to the quotes -- your contribution brings value to the content, and I love your expression 'the statist theocracy that infests this land' :-) Yes, I can see how one's opinions about these quotes can change over time. As for dick, his views appear to depend on the political party in power -- i.e. the media is corrupt during the Bush years, but they speak only truth during Obama's tenure. If only life were that simple.

Wow, Dick, how ignorant can you be? This quote page with its associated comments is over 8 years old. People add comments to it over the years. Some quotes are emailed out to the list more than once every 5 years or so. The link to the quote is to the same page as the last time the quote was sent out, so the previous comments are still there. We do not add comments to the quote pages -- if there is a comment made by you, it was put there by you -- we have the IP addresses to prove it. Perhaps you do not understand the concept of a blog and the ongoing discussion for each of these quote pages. And why would we purposefully add your comments when you don't actually make an argument? It doesn't really add any value to the discussion. If we were to re-post comments from others on a page, we would certainly pick more intelligent posts. If you don't like what you have said in the past, I suggest you post a comment that you would be proud to see 10 years later. So far, you are only embarrassing yourself.

Dick, This is the 2nd time you have claimed that we are making posts for you. We do not, have not, and have no need to. Your comment was made the last time this quote was sent out in August 2006 as was also Reston's to which you replied.

So let me express to the readers of Liberty Quotes that Dick does not stand behind his comments - even he does not believe what he says apparently (not that he is actually saying anything...). Yes he did make the comment, and yes he did agree with Reston (as he frequently does). You can check a cached version of this page with Google and see that his comment has been here for years. Get a grip, Dick.

The ratings, KG, are for the quote and made by the commenters themselves. We do not rate people's comments. Thank you.

dick, Liberty Quotes have been sent out daily for 12 years. Every 4 years or so we may resend certain quotes since not every subscriber has been on this list for 12 years. dick, you have been on this list for at least 7 years or more - so if you see a comment by you, it WAS you, as I have confirmed your IP address in the past.

We do not add comments - they are added by visitors to the site. Just because you cannot remember your posts does not mean we have added them for you. You threatened to sue us before because you did not remember posting a comment (during the Bush administration) in which you gave five stars to a quote about political propaganda, but when that quote was sent out recently during the Obama administration somehow you disagreed with your previous response. Frankly it is you now that is casting aspersions upon us.

So dear readers just know that there are many who comment on this site when it suits their own political leanings but do not like their own arguments used to defend causes they do not support. It is sort of a conditional argument - if there is a republican president then the press is lying, if there is a democrat president then the press is truthful.

That being said, your posts here may remain on this site for decades - if you find that you have changed your mind, please do not blame us for the comments you have made in the past - you are responsible and accountable for what you say. Deal with it.

Dick, according to our logs, your original post was on 02/14/2006 09:08 AM, in response to the last time this quote was sent out to the Liberty Tree list. The IP address is consistent with all your other posts at that time. You are a respected, longtime subscriber to Liberty Quotes, why make such a threat and insinuation? Just curious.

Hey, Mike, what do you mean? I don't understand.

Sorry, folks, this quote was sent out inadvertently. Yet a lot of comments from subscribers we haven't heard from in a while. :-) Cheers!

Our apologies, the spelling error has been corrected. Thank you, Waffler, for bringing this to our attention.
See: HERE.

Yes, Ben Franklin DID say this. Here is one of dozens on online sources: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html

The source has been added.

Thanks, Mike, Florida. The quote is indeed found in the dissenting opinion of Justice Scalia in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 91-92 (2000). The quote can be found here. And, yes, Mike, please comment more often. Cheers.

Thanks, Tom! We have modified the quote accordingly. You can find the quote in its entirety here: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.BE9E

Good enough for me, Phillip. Stick around, we could use more of your insight.

We have not been able to find a source for this other than other books and web sites, so we are tagging this quote as Questionable. Cheers.

Hey, guys, It has been a while since I have had to remind bloggers here to please comment on the quote and the principles being expounded. If we could please not bash other posters but rather debate ideas, this site will attract more conversation. I have received countless emails complaining that new bloggers are often beat up by regulars here. Please, let's keep it civil -- let your argument make its point without prejudice to others' supposed political leanings or 'agenda.' We have one agenda here: to promote the principles of Liberty and the Responsibility that comes with it. Thanks!

The quote is ATTRIBUTED and is stated as such. It is unnecessary to continue to post that the quote is fake -- it is indeed attributed to Stalin. Let the reader decide for him or herself the words, context, and lack of source. The quote exists wherever it came from and is posted as such. To further the discussion of Liberty, please comment on the content or principle of the quote. Thank you.

Thanks, Joe, however, we have been unable to find the sentence from Plucknett's 'Concise History of Common Law' -- can you provide a link? Thank you.

Sorry, guys, the quote is from Andrew Hamilton, not Alexander Hamilton. The correction has been made.

@Mike, sorry to hear about your comments not going through. There is a little bit of automatic spam word searching done, so maybe you have used one of the spam keywords. I remember that I put 'cialis' in the spam list and did not realise that it was part of the words socialism and socialist. :) I often copy my entire post to the clipboard before I submit comments in blogs because sometimes the connection drops or some other error occurs and I lose what I had typed. You can always try sending me the post via email and I will put it in. Cheers to everyone, and Merry Christmas!

Thanks, N. Miller. The correction has been made.

L. Hanson, thanks for your feedback. We are in need of more Liberty quotes from other countries than the US - can you please send us some? From France and Canada would be great. Thank you.

The quote is from the 1st Edition of Tragedy and Hope. However, that book is hard to find, and electronic versions of it have been edited. Quigley himself states that "I am now quite sure that 'Tragedy and Hope' was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom." The 2nd Edition has been severely edited.