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State Mottoes

Alabama: 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 withoutthe Deity).
Connecticut: Oui transtulit sustinet (He whotransplanted continues to sustain).
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 inrighteousness) .
Idaho: Esto Perpetua (Mayest thou endure forever!).
Illinois: State sovereignty national union.
Indiana: The crossroads of America.
Iowa: Our liberties we prize and our rightswe will maintain.
Kansas: Ad astra per aspera (To the starsthrough difficulties).
Kentucky: United we stand, divided we fall.
Louisiana: Union, justice, and confidence.
Maine: Dirigo (I guide).
Maryland: Scuto bonae voluntatis tuae coronastinos (With the shield of thy goodwill thouhast covered us).
Massachusetts: Ense petit placidam sublibertate quietem (By the sword we seekpeace, but peace only under liberty).
Michigan: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenamcircumspice (If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you).
Minnesota: L'Etoile du Nord (The star of thenorth).
Mississippi: Virtute et armis (By valor andarms).
Missouri: Salus populi suprema lex esto(Let the welfare of the people 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 itgoes).
New York: Excelsior.
North Carolina: Esse quam videri (To berather than to seem).
North Dakota: Liberty and union, now andforever, one and inseparable.
Ohio: With God, all things are possible.
Oklahoma: Labor omnia vincit (Laborconquers all things).
Oregon: The Union.
Pennsylvania: Virtue, liberty, and independence.
Rhode Island: Hope.
South Carolina: Animis opibusque parati(Prepared in mind and resources).
South Dakota: Under God the people rule.
Tennessee: Agriculture and commerce.
Texas: Friendship.
Utah: Industry.
Vermont: Freedom and unity.
Virginia: Sic semper tyrannis (Thus everto tyrants).
Washington: Alki (By and by).
West Virginia: Montani semper liberi (Mountaineers are always freemen).
Wisconsin: Forward.
Wyoming: Cedant arma togae (Let arms yieldto the gown).

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