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Liberty or death, Independence or death or similar phrases may refer to:


Patriotic slogans

*'' Eleftheria i thanatos'' ('Freedom or Death'), national motto of Greece * " Give me liberty, or give me death!", attributed to American orator Patrick Henry in 1775 * The
Culpeper Minutemen The Culpeper Minutemen was a militia group formed in 1775 in the district around Culpeper, Virginia. Like minutemen in other British colonies, the men drilled in military tactics and trained to respond to emergencies "at a minute's notice". Or ...
had "Liberty or death" on their flag *''Independência ou morte'' ('Independence or Death'), motto of the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889) *''Libertad o Muerte'' ('Freedom or Death), national motto of Uruguay *''Sloboda ili smrt'' ('Freedom or Death'), motto of the Serbian/Yugoslav
Chetniks The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...
*''Viața-n libertate ori moarte!'' ('Life in freedom or death!'), a shout proclaimed in the national anthem of Romania * ''Svoboda ili smart'' ('Freedom or Death'), a slogan used by the early Bulgarian revolutionaries. The same slogan was used by various regional Bulgarian komitadjis later. * ''Ya istiklâl ya ölüm'' ('Either independence or death'), List of national mottos, a national motto of Turkey *''Merdeka atau Mati!'' ('Independence or Death!'), a slogan / quote by Sutomo, Bung Tomo during the Indonesian National Revolution. *''Marşo ya joƶalla'' ('Freedom or Death'), motto of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion *''Volia abo smert'' ('Freedom or Death'), motto of Ukraine *''Azatut'yun kam mah'' ('Freedom or Death'), motto of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation


Other uses

*GNU General Public License#Version 2, nicknamed "Liberty or Death" *Liberty or Death (album), ''Liberty or Death'' (album), by Grave Digger, 2007 *Liberty or Death (video game), ''Liberty or Death'' (video game), 1993 *''Freedom or Death'', a 1913 speech made by English militant feminist Emmeline Pankhurst * Independence or Death (painting), ''Independence or Death'' (painting), by Pedro Américo, 1888 * Troutman flag, with the words "Liberty or Death", used by the Georgia battalion during Texas revolution * "" ('Death or Liberty'), a quotation from the play ''The Robbers'' () by Friedrich Schiller


See also

* Give Me Liberty (disambiguation) * Socialism or Barbarism (disambiguation) * List of national mottos * ''Captain Michalis'', or ''Freedom or Death'', a 1953 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis * ''Liberté, égalité, fraternité'', the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti * Live Free or Die, the state motto of New Hampshire, U.S. * Join, or Die * Samuel Sharpe, an enslaved Jamaican, who said "I would rather die among yonder gallows, than live in slavery." {{disambiguation Political catchphrases