A motto is a phrase or a brief statement used to express a guiding principle, goal, or idea. Many countries around the world, businesses, universities, and other institutions all have their own mottos. The United States has fifty states that reaches out to include Alaska and Hawaii, the last two states to join the Union. Each state has its own motto along with its flag, bird, flower, song etc. However, in this week's article we will be looking at all mottos of the United States.
Here is a list of the 50 States of America in alphabetical order along with their mottos. Mottos for countries around the world can be found here:
Mottos for countries around the world.
United State Mottos
| 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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A motto is a phrase or a brief statement used to express a guiding principle, goal, or idea. Many countries around the world, businesses, universities, and other institutions all have their own mottos. The United States has fifty states that reaches out to include Alaska and Hawaii, the last two states to join the Union. Each state has its own motto along with its flag, bird, flower, song etc. However, in this week's article we will be looking at all mottos of the United States.
Those are some pretty cool mottos. I like NC's, but maybe I'm a little partial.
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ReplyDeleteWell can't blame you to be partial, you have good reason to. It is better "To be rather than to seem" :)
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