True State Motto's
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:52 pm
State: True Motto
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
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 (Let it be perpetual) It is forever
Kansas: Ad astra per aspera... To the stars through difficulties
Illinois: State Sovereignty, National Union
Iowa: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain
Indiana: The crossroads of America
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 direct
Maryland: Fatti maschil 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 pleasent peninsula, look about you
Minnesota: L'Etoile du nord ...The star of the north
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: ro 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
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 Propiis ... She Flies With Her Own Wings
Pennsylvania: Virtue, Liberty, and Independence
Rhode Island: Hope
South Carolina: Prepared in mind and resources /While I breathe, I hope
South Dakota: Under God the people rule
Tennessee: Agriculture and commerce
Texas: Friendship
Utah: Industry
Vermont: Freedom and unity
Virginia: Sic Semper Tyrannis... Thus Always to Tyrants
Washington: Alki... Bye and Bye
West Virginia: Montani semper liberi... Mountaineers are always free
Wisconsin: Forward
Wyoming: Equal rights
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
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 (Let it be perpetual) It is forever
Kansas: Ad astra per aspera... To the stars through difficulties
Illinois: State Sovereignty, National Union
Iowa: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain
Indiana: The crossroads of America
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 direct
Maryland: Fatti maschil 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 pleasent peninsula, look about you
Minnesota: L'Etoile du nord ...The star of the north
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: ro 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
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 Propiis ... She Flies With Her Own Wings
Pennsylvania: Virtue, Liberty, and Independence
Rhode Island: Hope
South Carolina: Prepared in mind and resources /While I breathe, I hope
South Dakota: Under God the people rule
Tennessee: Agriculture and commerce
Texas: Friendship
Utah: Industry
Vermont: Freedom and unity
Virginia: Sic Semper Tyrannis... Thus Always to Tyrants
Washington: Alki... Bye and Bye
West Virginia: Montani semper liberi... Mountaineers are always free
Wisconsin: Forward
Wyoming: Equal rights