George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Remarks on the Capture of Saddam Hussein (December 2003)
“I would rather face the terrorists than lose my civil liberties.”
Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! (2008), Ch. 14 (p. 271)
Context: I would rather face the terrorists than lose my civil liberties. If protecting our safety means taking away our Bill of Rights, then could I be so crass and bold as to scream "Give me liberty or give me death"? Once freedom is gone—the bedrock foundation that built our country—what's left to stand for and believe in?
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&q=%22I+would+rather+belong+to+a+poor+nation+that+was+free+than+to+a+rich+nation+that+had+ceased+to+be+in+love+with+liberty%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913) <br class="br">1910s
“I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=sIE7AAAAYAAJ&q=%22I+have+always+considered+my+face+a+convenience+rather+than+an+ornament%22&pg=PA103#v=onpage to James Russell Lowell (18 March 1882)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Archibald Stuart http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/skjolly/jeffersonianfederalism.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=ZTIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA837#v=onepage&q=&f=false, Philadelphia (23 December 1791) <br class="br">1790s <br class="br">Variant: I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it. <br class="br">Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
Source: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
U.S. House of Representatives, September 12, 2001 http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr091201.htm <br class="br">2000s, 2001-2005
Paul Ryan (1970) American politician
2004-01-20
State delegation split on speech
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Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=201475
2012-09-30
http://web.archive.org/web/20080116205008/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=201475
2008-01-16
discussing the USA PATRIOT Act
Jeff Sessions (1946) Former United States Attorney General
Said in a derogatory tone on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Monday, 17 December 2007 http://unamericanrevolution.com/policy/betrayal-of-the-american-conscience/ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?r110:./temp/~r110JlvtMq