State Mottoes

State

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)v

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)

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

Texas

Friendship

Utah

Industry

Vermont

Freedom and Unity

Virginia

Sic semper tyrannis (Thus always to tyrants)

Washington

Al-Ki (Chinook Jargon meaning “bye and bye”)

West Virginia

Montani semper liberi (Mountaineers are always free)

Wisconsin

Forward

Wyoming

Equal rights