Unite or Die

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Unite or Die refers to:

• an American Revolutionary War motto which was displayed with the image of a writhing snake chopped into segments, usually on a yellow background.

The Pennsylvania Journal, published by William Bradford, featured the motto and image in the years before the war. Variations of this logo were also used by Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, and others.

The motto is recalled in the New Hampshire motto "Live Free or Die".

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• the now infamous statement made by British politician Iain Duncan Smith in Novermber 2002, to the members of the Conservative Party of which he was leader.