Liberty or death

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 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
• 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'), a national motto of Turkey
• Merdeka atau Mati! ('Independence or Death!'), a slogan / quote by 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), by Grave Digger, 2007
• Liberty or Death (video game), 1993
• Freedom or Death, a 1913 speech made by English militant feminist Emmeline Pankhurst
• Independence or Death (painting), by Pedro Américo, 1888
• Troutman flag, with the words "Liberty or Death", used by the Georgia battalion during Texas revolution
• "Tod oder Freiheit" ('Death or Liberty'), a quotation from the play The Robbers (Die Räuber) 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."