Liberty or death facts for kids
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
In Spanish: Libertad o Muerte para niños
- 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."
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