> > Brad DeLong, who is suddenly contemplating the virtues of the New
> > Hampshire license plate...
>
> "Live free or die." Yet another manifestation of the sick culture of
> martyrdom and death that has infected certain societies....
>
> Seth
I thought this motto originated with French revolutionaries, I think the 1870 Commune but maybe it was 1848.
There is a picture of a revolutionary poster in Julie Kristeva's (sp?) book showing Marianne with the legend Vivre libre ou mourir! I forget the title of her book.
The New Hampshire slogan is capitalist expropriation.
-- John K. Taber
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