State Mottoes
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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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) |