The first paragraph of the quote is found in Woodrow Wilson's book written in 1913, The New Freedom: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People, chapter 8. The 2nd paragraph is found in chapter 9: http://books.google.com/books?id=fiESAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 We have not yet found a confirmed source for the "I have betrayed my country" quote -- that is why it is in parenthesis with a note.

Thanks, anon, but it is 'creed.' See The Road to Serfdom, pg 73:
http://books.google.com/books?id=eTve6XEUbYIC&pg=PA73

Logan, I keep pretty busy just keeping the spam off the site and moderating you guys. :-) I was recently accused by one of the bloggers here that I was a fraud and was secretly Waffler trying to keep people interested in the site!! I can assure you, Waffler is all too real, and may I say a welcome contributor to the site. I get my say by picking the quotes. When we first started the daily mailing, I included some of my comments with each day's quotes -- after a good bit of hate mail, I stopped. We are planning to open up an op-ed section for posting articles and editorials for deeper introspection. Thanks to you all for the value you add to the site by your thoughtful comments!

Hey, Robert. Welcome back! Just because you changed email address doesn't mean you have to change your blogging alias here. I suggest you keep using RobertSRQ since we know you that way. Cheers! -Eric

Thank you, jim see. The quote has been tagged as questionable, and the source information has been updated.

This is only half the quote -- the other half repeats the phrase with 'merciful' instead of 'merciless.'

Yes, John, the quote is already categorized as False -- see title above.

We quote from all sides, True Freedom Fighter, and as has been said many times, we do not necessarily agree with the quotes but present them as food for thought. Thanks for commenting, and if there are some quotes you would like us to send out that better express your ideas of freedom, please do send them to us. We've been picking out quotes every day since the year 2000, and we are open to suggestions (we do not have even one quotation from Rush Limbaugh in our database, so I am not sure what you are talking about). As a 'True Freedom Fighter,' I look forward to some of your own favourites. We've updated Liddy's bio and included 'convicted Watergate burglar' in case there was anyone here that didn't already know that -- should we add 'nut case,' too? '-) We'll leave that for others to decide. Cheers!

It may be a misquote but not 'blatantly' so. Give us the source, Manny, and we will be happy to make the correction. Thanks.

With the US elections coming up, it is understandable that commenters will apply quotes to current events. But to keep the quotes comments more toward the quotes, we will create another area on this web site for discussions. This section is long overdue, and it seems a good time to launch it. We will likely 'grab' a few choice comments from the quotes to continue the threads. Cheers.

Thanks, Anonymous, we have updated our database with Buckley's year of death. Cheers.

Thanks, Jack from Brussels. The quote has been updated. Cheers.

It seems every few months it becomes necessary to remind our commentators to keep their comments to the current quote. We also ask that no one person attempt to dilute the comments with 2 to 3 posts for every 1 of another's posts. And please do not post under different aliases. We welcome intelligent debate especially when it stays on topic. Off-topic comments without ratings are removed. Thank you, Eric Schaub,

Anonymous, Here is the link to a photocopy of the page from Wilson's book, page 201: http://books.google.com/books?id=fiESAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201
Actually, Salon has got it wrong -- it has incorrectly quoted from the book -- in particular the last sentence.

Thanks, Henry. We have now tagged this quote as False after a bit more research. We will keep it in the database, though, as it is a popular quote on the Internet, and we will attest to its being misattributed. Thanks, everyone, your efforts help keep this database accurate.

Barry & Chris, Thanks for your feedback on the web site. You must be new subscribers. In our welcome email we mentioned that we quote from all sides, and that we do not necessarily agree with whom we quote. Quotes about limiting freedom are as relevent to Liberty as those that profess freedom. Stick around.

Sorry, Dave. Our servers check for previous posts for Anonymous bloggers and replace their name. This helps prevent multiple posts from the same person using different aliases. Since you often include links to your web site in your posts, your anonymity seems unnecessary. You make good arguments, so I would ask that you use your name so that people can address your comments. Thanks.

Waffler, please stay on topic. Put your debate about democracy under a quote that is about that, please.

Thanks for the link, Mark. In the transcript, Ron Suskind says, "What Cheney does at that moment is say that we will probably have to be a country ruled by men rather than laws in this period." We will dig further to see if this is a direct quote, paraphrase, or opinion.

Thanks, Waffler. The correct source has been updated.

Robert, Albany,NY, We haven't found a source yet, but the quote has been popularly attributed to Franklin.

Howie, we at Liberty Quotes believe it takes 2 wings to fly. :-) We send out quotes from Hitler and Stalin, too, that doesn't mean we agree with them (e.g. did you happen to catch the title of this page: INFAMOUS George W. Bush quote?). RobertSRQ, I am sorry, but we cannot promise GWB will not make any more dumb statements -- this particular dumb statement received a standing ovation in Congress on both sides of the aisle, so obviously Bush is not alone in expressing these sentiments. Then again, what would have been the consequences of not cheering for it ...? Bush's statement implies that most of the commentors here can now be classified as suspected terrorists. :-) Therefore, in our view, this quote is worthy of inclusion in a collection of Liberty Quotes. I think the number of thumbs down should be a good indicator of how most feel about it.

The source has been updated. Cheers!

Hello, bloggers! Don't understand the meaning of the quote? It's about you! Cheers!

Ray, dozens of countries call themselves republics: the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Honduras, the Dominican Republic, etc.. John Adams published a great comparison of the republics of his time -- check out Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787