Governor Romney? It's Patrick Henry on line 1...

...something about there being no retreat but in submission and slavery, and you being some sort of rapper, or onion, or whatever a "rapscallion" is...

Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775:

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Willard "Mitt" Romney, December, 2007:

Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive.

(h/t Glenn Greenwald.)

Yeah, so, um, thanks for the words of inspiration, Willard, although I'm pretty sure you just called me and every other living American a pussy. Yep. You did. Perhaps you need to re-watch the masterpiece that is Team America: World Police, and hearken unto its central message:

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?

There's a reason, Willard, that Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, enumerated the rights of life and liberty separately: because they're not the same fucking thing.