State Mottoes
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Alabama | Audemus jura nostra defendere (We dare defend our rights) |
| Alaska | North to the Future |
| Arizona | Ditat Deus (God enriches) |
| Arkansas | Regnat populus (The people rule) |
| California | Eureka (I have found it) |
| Colorado | Nil sine Numine (Nothing without Providence) |
| Connecticut | Qui transtulit sustinet (He who transplanted still sustains) |
| Delaware | Liberty and independence |
| Florida | In God we trust (1868) |
| Georgia | Wisdom, justice, and moderation |
| Hawaii | Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness) |
| Idaho | Esto perpetua (It is forever) |
| Illinois | State sovereignty, national union |
| Indiana | The Crossroads of America |
| Iowa | Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain |
| Kansas | Ad astra per aspera (To the stars through difficulties) |
| Kentucky | United we stand, divided we fall |
| Louisiana | Union, justice, and confidence |
| Maine | Dirigo (I lead) |
| Maryland | Fatti maschii, parole femine (Manly deeds, womanly words) |
| Massachusetts | Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty) |
| Michigan | Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice (If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you) |
| Minnesota | L'Étoile du Nord (The North Star) |
| Mississippi | Virtute et armis (By valor and arms) |
| Missouri | Salus populi suprema lex esto (The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law) |
| Montana | Oro y plata (Gold and silver) |
| Nebraska | Equality before the law |
| Nevada | All for Our Country |
| New Hampshire | Live free or die |
| New Jersey | Liberty and prosperity |
| New Mexico | Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) |
| New York | Excelsior (Ever upward) |
| North Carolina | Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem) |
| North Dakota | Liberty and union, now and forever: one and inseparable |
| Ohio | With God all things are possible |
| Oklahoma | Labor omnia vincit (Labor conquers all things) |
| Oregon | Alis volat Propriis (She flies with her own wings) (1987) |
| Pennsylvania | Virtue, liberty, and independence |
| Rhode Island | Hope |
| South Carolina | Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind and resources) and Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope) |
| South Dakota | Under God the people rule |
| Tennessee | Agriculture and Commerce (1987) |
| Texas | Friendship |
| Utah | Industry |
| Vermont | Vermont, Freedom and Unity |
| Virginia | Sic semper tyrannis (Thus always to tyrants) |
| Washington | Al-Ki (Indian word meaning “by and by”) |
| West Virginia | Montani semper liberi (Mountaineers are always free) |
| Wisconsin | Forward |
| Wyoming | Equal rights (1955) |
