Liberty or death

Liberty or death, alternatively independence or death, is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries, notably the United States of America, Brazil, Bulgaria, Catalonia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ireland, and Uruguay. Those include:

• Viurem Lliures o Morirem! ("Let's live free or die!"), motto of the Catalan Resistance against the armies of Spain and France during the Siege of Barcelona in 1714.
• "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!", a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry near the start of the American Revolution.
• Independência ou morte ("independence or death"), motto of the Empire of Brazil (1822–89), proclaimed in 1822 for the independence.
• Eleftheria i thanatos ("freedom or death"), the national motto of Greece, derived from the 1821 Greek War of Independence.
• "Libertad o Muerte" ("Liberty or Death"), the national motto of Uruguay, taken from the Cisplatine War in 1825.
• Свобода или смърт or Svoboda ili smârt ("freedom or death"), originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography: Свобода или смърть, is a slogan used by the Bulgarian komitadjis during and after the April Uprising of 1876, including the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903.
• Ya istiklal ya ölüm ("independence or death"), the national motto of Turkey, settled by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and used during the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922).
• Sloboda ili smrt or Слобода или смрт ("freedom or death"), motto of the Serbian Chetniks.
• Viața-n libertate ori moarte ("Life in freedom or death!"), a shout proclaimed in the national anthem of Romania.

It can refer also to:

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• Liberty or Death, an 1876 poem by Ivan Vazov.
• Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection, a 2016 board game published by GMT Games.
• Liberty or Death (album), a 2007 album by the band Grave Digger.
• Liberty or Death (video game), a 1993 video game based on the American Revolutionary War.

See also

• Give Me Liberty (disambiguation)
• Live Free or Die, the state motto of New Hampshire
• 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.
• Samuel Sharpe, the leader of a slave revolt in Jamaica, reportedly said before being hanged: "I would rather die among yonder gallows, than live in slavery."
• Liberty or Death - by British author David Cook is a 2014 novella of the 1798 Irish rebellion
• Independence or Death (painting), famous Brazilian painting
• National Anthem of Uruguay
• Flag of the Treinta y Tres, an official flag in use in Uruguay
• Troutman flag, used by the Georgia battalion during Texas revolution.
• God Save the South, unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America, which included the line: "Chanting our battle cry, 'Freedom or death!'"