New Hampshire’s official state motto is “Live Free or Die“, written by General John Stark, New Hampshire’s most distinguished hero of the Revolutionary War, adopted in 1945 as World war II approached its end.
The black flag with the motto Viurem lliures o morirem (We live free or die) was flown by Catalan army and militia corps during the final stages of the War of the Spanish Succession ((1701–1714).