States

State Mottoes

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)

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