Liberty or death  

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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, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ireland, and Uruguay.

Liberty or death may refer to:

Patriotic slogans

• Eleftheria i thanatos ("freedom or death"), national motto of Greece, derived from the 1821 Greek War of Independence
• "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!", a 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)
• Libertad o Muerte" ("Liberty or Death"), national motto of Uruguay, taken from the Cisplatine War in 1825
• 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
• Свобода или смърт or Svoboda ili smârt a slogan used by the Bulgarian komitadjis
• Ya istiklal ya ölüm ("independence or death"), the national motto of the Turkish Government of the Grand National Assembly

Painting

• La Liberté ou la Mort , A painting[1] by Jean-Baptiste Regnault

See also

• a speech made by English militant feminist Emmeline Pankhurst
• 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
• Give Me Liberty (disambiguation)
• Independence or Death (painting), 1888 Brazilian painting by Pedro Américo
• Live Free or Die, the state motto of New Hampshire
• 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."
• Troutman flag, used by the Georgia battalion during Texas revolution