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title: Liberty Bonds Are Fighting Bonds. Buy Them!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liberty-bonds-are-fighting-bonds-buy-them-1918/
description: A text-only sheet in large red and black capitals reads 'Liberty Bonds are Fighting Bonds. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Liberty Bonds Are Fighting Bonds. Buy Them!

A text-only sheet in large red and black capitals reads 'Liberty Bonds are Fighting Bonds. Buy Them!' with a small imprint naming the Liberty Loan Committee of the Second Federal Reserve District. There is no picture. The tell is the slogan's equation of a purchase with fighting, followed by a bare command.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LIBERTY
BONDS
ARE
FIGHTING
BONDS
BUY THEM!

LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE
Second Federal Reserve District

[small mark at lower left, partly legible: 170]
```

The imprint is at lower right in small capitals; the number at lower left is a small printed mark, not part of the slogan.

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