Liberty or Death
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Liberty or Death, Freedom or Death, and Live Free or Die are slogans made famous during the independence struggle of several countries, notably including Brazil, the United States of America, Bulgaria, Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Catalonia, Ireland and Uruguay.
It can refer to:
- "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!", a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry near the start of the American Revolution.
- Liberty or Death (video game), a 1993 video game based on the American Revolutionary War.
- Liberty or Death (album), a 2007 album by the band Grave Digger.
- Eleftheria i thanatos, the national motto of Greece, derived from the Greek War of Independence.
- Captain Michalis, a 1953 Greek novel by Nikos Kazantzakis titled as "Freedom or Death" in the US edition and "Freedom and Death" in the UK edition.
- Liberty or Death (Bulgaria) (Свобода или смъртъ), a Bulgarian slogan used on Bulgarian revolutionary flags during and after the April Uprising of 1876.
- "Liberty or Death" (poem) (Свобода или смърт), a poem by Ivan Vazov.
- "Слобода или смрт" (sloboda ili smrt; liberty or death), a slogan of Macedonian revolutionaries from Macedonia and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
- Libertad o muerte, the national motto of Uruguay.
- Live Free or Die, the state motto of New Hampshire
- "It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!" - variant of the above variously attributed to Emiliano Zapata, José Martí, Dolores Ibárruri, and Che Guevara, and sometimes traced back to Aeschylus q:Emiliano Zapata
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