On Tue, 14 May 2002, John K. Taber wrote:
> "Live free or die."
>
> > I thought this motto originated with French revolutionaries, I
> > think the 1870 Commune but maybe it was 1848.
Actually I believe they got it from us. I think it was an oft-quoted slogan around the time of the Amerian Revolution, right up there with "Don't Tread on Me" and "Give me liberty or give me death" -- the latter of which says pretty much the same thing, now that I think about it.
Michael