Thomas Paine
Well, considering her exact words were...
“The choice was between a soft tyranny - which held the possibilities of either a) being able to turn this thing around or b) patriots going back into the slumber they had been in up until 2010 and ending up where we are anyway; or the hard tyranny, with which there will be no compromises.”
The context dictates that soft tyranny was an acceptable option to her. If not, she used an awfully bad example. So I doubt quoting any of the men who directly opposed both and accepted neither will make a dent.
I notice that all the arguments opposing the GOP’s path seem to also oppose the founding fathers very words and intent in any number of areas. They were either wrong or they were not. Seems simple enough.
I never heard the quote as “Give me liberty or perhaps we can form a drum circle”.