Liberty or Death
Liberty or Death is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries, notably including the United States of America, Brazil, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, 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.
- Eleftheria i thanatos, the national motto of Greece, derived from the 1821 Greek War of Independence.
- Freedom or Death (FYROM: Слобода или смрт, transliterated: Svoboda ili sm'rt), a slogan of Bulgarian-fyrom revolutionaries, and the national motto of the Republic of Skopia.
- "Свобода или смъртъ" (Svoboda ili smârt), a Bulgarian slogan used on Bulgarian revolutionary flags during and after the April Uprising of 1876.
- Sloboda ili smrt (Слобода или смрт), motto of the Chetniks
- "Libertad o muerte", the national motto of Uruguay.
- Liberty or Death, a 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.
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 novella of the 1798 Irish rebellion
- Independence or Death (painting), famous Brazilian painting
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