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  Live free or die - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Live free or die" is the official motto of New Hampshire, adopted by the state Legislature in 1945.
George Maynard, a Jehovah's Witness, cut off "or die" from his plate for religious reasons, and was convicted of breaking the state law that required the motto.
Live Free or Die is popular among the geek set, a group which also cherishes its independence.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Live_free_or_die   (555 words)

  
 Live free or die -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Live free or die" is the official motto of (A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies) New Hampshire, adopted by the state Legislature in 1945.
George Maynard, a (Click link for more info and facts about Jehovah's Witness) Jehovah's Witness, cut off "or die" from his plate for religious reasons, and was convicted of breaking the state law that required the motto.
Live Free or Die is popular among the (An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively) nerd set, a group which also cherishes its independence.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/live_free_or_die.htm   (459 words)

  
 livefree: Live Free or Die; Death is Not the Worst of Evils
Live Free or Die; Death is Not the Worst of Evils
The words Live Free or Die, written by General John Stark, July 31, 1809, are the official motto of the livefree blog, and the state of New Hampshire.
The motto Live Free Or Die was voiced by General John Stark, the state's most distinguished hero of the Revolutionary War, and the world famous Old Man of the Mountain.
livefree.blogs.com /livefree/2003/08/live_free_or_di.html   (272 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Live Free or Die   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Live Free or Die is also the name of drifter Frederick Elman's camper/pickup truck, in which he reluctantly returns to Darby to take over his father's trash-collection business while the older man is recovering from a fall incurred while poaching on private land owned by the Salmon family.
"Live Free or Die" is a novel that deals with a rural community and the characters within.
Live Free or Die, is the motto for many of the people of Darby, yet few actually believe and live by it.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0874516994   (894 words)

  
 Blog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The free speech imperative of the blog world has also had a deep social impact.
Online diaries are integrated into the daily lives of many teenagers and college students, with communications between friends playing out over their blogs.
Blogs written as personal accounts of living with a specific health issue, sharing information about the experience with others who have an interest in that health issue and providing mutual support.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blog   (5018 words)

  
 New Hampshire Almanac
The words "Live Free or Die," written by General John Stark, July 31, 1809, shall be the official motto of the state.
The motto became "Live Free Or Die," as once voiced by General John Stark, the state's most distinguished hero of the Revolutionary War, and the world famous Old Man of the Mountain was voted the official state emblem.
The motto was part of a volunteer toast which General Stark sent to his wartime comrades, in which he declined an invitation to head up a 32nd anniversary reunion of the 1777 Battle of Bennington in Vermont, because of poor health.
www.state.nh.us /nhinfo/emblem.html   (256 words)

  
 Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com Analysis
“Live Free Or Die!” This is the state motto of New Hampshire.
Go live in Zimbabwe (where a brutal dictator is busy slaughtering and starving half of the country’s population).
Go live in just about any Latin American nation, North Korea, or China (where doors are kicked in during the middle of the night, in order that husbands and wives may be torn from their houses and families to be tortured and perhaps never seen again).
www.prisonplanet.com /analysis_mark_041703_live.html   (1706 words)

  
 Live Free or Die
It is one thing to bring the victim of some horrible pestilence here from a foreign land to impart the skills of medicine and science in the tender art of healing; it is quite another to unleash some plague from that foreign land upon the entire nation.
But it is the very opposite of discord to envision a nation free of divisions and to maintain that stance until, throughout all the land, there are peaceful neighborhoods, tranquil streets, happy homes and smiling faces.
At the moment that your Governor challenged youth to rise for freedom, it did not matter that he was born in Georgia or lived in New Hampshire, or that he spoke with a Yankee accent or was received with a Southern drawl.
www.nationalist.org /speeches/freedom/live.html   (5908 words)

  
 Reason: Revolt of the Porcupines: The Free State Project wants libertarians to take over New Hampshire. Is this a ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
And the weasels who in a statist world would be telling brave producers what they had to make or what they had to pay their employees would need to find new work—perhaps as toll booth operators on private roads, or tort lawyers, since lawsuits for proven harms would replace the regulatory state.
Free Stater Keith Murphy, an urban studies graduate student at the University of Maryland, tells me that on his visit to New Hampshire to scout it out, he did something every day that would have been against the law in his home state.
She is an anarchist, a matter of some controversy among Free Staters, though it didn’t seem to faze the TV reporters.
www.reason.com /0412/fe.bd.revolt.shtml   (4698 words)

  
 index
The United Nations has invaded and conquered the United States and it is up to the players, in the role of citizen-patriots, to take up arms set things right.
The free game has a fast and furious combat system, a complete but streamlined character creation, action resolution system and enough background to make the game realistic.
LFOD gets back to what gaming should be about; rolling dice, using rules and making up entertaining scenarios involving opening up a can of whup-ass on the bad guys.
www.geocities.com /livefreeordiegame   (374 words)

  
 Live Free or Die Trying - Jonathan David Morris - MensNewsDaily.com™
But if there's something Free Staters must understand, it's that, in the battle against Big Gov't, their enemy's in it to win it -- and so they must be in it to win it, too.
That's when we'll know that Americans are living in perfect harmony, content to do their own thing without butting into someone else's business and/or businesses.
Members of the Free State Project want big, bumbling bureaucracies to leave them alone -- to let them pass or fail life's little tests on merits completely their own.
mensnewsdaily.com /archive/m-n/morris/03/morris100703.htm   (1127 words)

  
 Live Free or Die: Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day by Edwin A. Locke -- Capitalism Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But if a man risks his life on the premise, "I would rather die than live in slavery," it is a tragic loss--but it is not a sacrifice.
It is terrible to die in war, but there is one thing worse: to die in a war that has no meaning, a war that offers no reason for risking one's life.
Suggested amounts per year: free for students under 18, else students are $15, $25 and up for individuals, $99 and up for businesses, $499 and up for benefactors.
www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=2153   (956 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Live Free or Die
Instead he sent the toast, which said in full: "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils." John Stark (August 28, 1728 - May 8, 1822) was a general who served in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July.
The Greek War of Independence also known like the greek revolution of 1821 was a war against the Ottoman Empire for independence, witch started that year and finaly granted by the Treaty of Constantinople in July 1832 when greece (Hellas) recognised as a free country.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Live-Free-or-Die   (1051 words)

  
 Live Free or Die Critique
I contend that Live Free or Die distorts the activities of the New Hampshire Right to Life so egregiously that the student who views the film is unable to form an accurate picture of the pro-life movement in this country.
Without an accurate picture of the pro-life movement, the student's access to the arguments against abortion is fatally inhibited and she or he cannot arrive at a true conclusion about the moral value of abortion.
LIVE FREE OR DIE is letter boxed on the top half of screen, white on fl, underlined in green.
www.geocities.com /livefreecritique/showterror.html   (3714 words)

  
 Reason: Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom: Is “economic freedom” just another word for nothing left to do?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(Living in middle America, not the porn job.) Until a recent move to the Washington, D.C., area, I spent the last eight years where the land is plentiful, the houses cheap, and the taxes low—in other words, in a zone of relative economic freedom.
From 1996 to 1998, I lived in Huntsville, Texas, a prison-and-college town (ain’t they all) with a total population of about 30,000; from 1998 until last summer, I lived in small-town Ohio.
Living in Huntsville in particular taught me that the cost of living is far less important than the demand for living.
www.reason.com /0502/co.ng.rant.shtml   (674 words)

  
 'Live free or die' forever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The spirit behind ''Live Free or Die'' sparked the flame of revolution that eventually spread across the country.
It was not a battle cry but a toast sent in 1809 by General John Stark to a reunion of his comrades from the Battle of Bennington, a major Revolutionary War victory.
General Stark, born in Derry, had retired after the war to his farm in Manchester and was unable to attend the reunion in Vermont due to poor health.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/19990612/ED_001.htm   (310 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: George Maynard recalls license-plate ordeal, free-speech victory
Though the cost of his free expression was high, Maynard felt obligated to adhere to his beliefs.
Middleton told freedomforum.org that his firm took the case pro bono — free of charge — because he thought it was a good case.
First, the court determined that the creation of positive values associated with the motto is “directly related to the suppression of free expression.” The court also determined that the state could advance its interests in proper vehicle identification in ways that would not infringe on First Amendment values.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=15440   (1934 words)

  
 "I": Live Free or Die!
These questions shall be answered in the coming years as the Free State Project takes hold in the beautiful state of New Hampshire.
I am a committed member of the Free State Project and encourage all freedom loving people to investigate it.
If the Free State Project interests you, or if you are a fellow Free Stater, then you won't want to miss the September weekend workshop I am holding in neighboring Portland, Maine.
wealthwarrior.blogspot.com /2004/07/live-free-or-die.html   (273 words)

  
 Free State Project — Live Free or Die, or Move
Last Wednesday, it was chosen to become the Free State by a group of 5,000 freedom-loving pioneers, activists, libertarians, visionaries, looney-tunes—call them what you will.
Within five years, the Porcupines, as we'll call them (this is their mascot), aim to recruit 15,000 more people and move, 20,000 strong, to the Live Free or Die state where they will then work without violence and within the political system to reduce the scope and size of government.
These media articles are maintained on a non-commercial basis by The Free State Project, a non-profit organization, for historical, educational, scholarship, and research purposes.
www.freestateproject.org /news/media_archive/0162.php   (1585 words)

  
 Observer | Live free or die, (and ignore the locusts)
Live free or die, (and ignore the locusts)
The early ballot gives the state enormous influence over candidates' success in other, larger states, and New Hampshire politicians cling to that privilege with all the tenacity you'd expect from a place whose official motto is "Live Free or Die."
But there is grumbling within the Democratic Party that New Hampshire ought to have lost its position after the 2000 election.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4845352-102275,00.html   (1326 words)

  
 Live Free or Die | MetaFilter
Living in a state run by libertarians is one of my personal nightmares, and the only thing that keeps my incredible curiousity and excitement at someone performing just such an experiment at bay is my sense of worry for the minority victims in this state.
Well, our free state overlords are clearly in no danger from me, since my knowledge of East Coast geography clearly prevent me from even finding one of the 13 original states.
The problem is, New Hampshire is a state with actual people living real lives within a political order that isn't anywhere near dysfunctional.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/28675   (1859 words)

  
 List of U.S. state mottos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article does not cite its references or sources.
This page was last modified 03:59, 21 October 2005.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_U.S._state_mottos   (185 words)

  
 boycott-riaa.com - Article: Live free or die copyrighting your own name.
Live free or die copyrighting your own name.
Filing stupid lawsuits that are a joke and a waste of time, but since the lawsuits are filed against people who normally file, we tend to believe he is a wacko.
He is doing the exact same thing, copyrighting something that should be free to use, his name.
www.boycott-riaa.com /article/15008   (1034 words)

  
 Live Free or Die
It is they who believe that our soldiers are sacrificial fodder to fulfill the politicians' desire for "prestige-enhancing" adventures…We must be proud of our soldiers, but it is equally true that they should be proud of the cause they fight for.
The best way we can honor our veterans and give real meaning to Veterans Day--aside from ceremonies honoring their past and present dedication and bravery--is to promise that we will go to war only when America's interests as a free nation are threatened, and wage it in the uncompromising pursuit of victory.
Hardy congratulations and respect for their achievements to all of our veterans who had the courage to live their rational values.
journals.aol.com /jwoodswce/USElection2004/entries/1388   (304 words)

  
 Live Free or Die-pro America rally in Porstmouth NH
Live Free or Die-pro America rally in Porstmouth NH Free Republic
Live Free or Die-pro America rally in Porstmouth NH
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/864734/posts   (474 words)

  
 Does that say Live Free or Die?
Most of us never planned to live here, unlike friends who've "always wanted to live in" X-fill-in-the-blank: London, San Francisco, New York City, Paris and at ages 24 or 33 or somewhere in between are fulfilling those dreams.
Before moving to Keene last spring, the closet I'd come to living in a rural area were my college years at UMASS Amherst.
It's an easy place to be young and live on a shoestring without feeling pinched.
www.hippopress.com /essays/newtotown.html   (660 words)

  
 'LIVE FREE OR DIE' AS A LINGUISTIC PRINCIPLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
'Live Free or Die' as a linguistic principle
In this paper, patterns of language variation and change in a rural region are examined.
Please address questions or comments to Naomi Nagy.
pubpages.unh.edu /~ngn/abstracts/livefree.html   (192 words)

  
 Live Free Before You Die: Join Us in NH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Live Free Before You Die: Join Us in NH Welcome to the Granite State Committee
To learn about New Hampshire and why we believe it is the absolute BEST free state candiadte, read 101 Reasons to Vote for New Hampshire as an Adobe PDF file or as a Web Slide Show.
We hope that we can count on your support for both the Free State Project and New Hampshire.
www.lpnh.org /why-nh.htm   (624 words)

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