List of U.S. state mottos
Here is a list of state mottos for the states of the United States. To promote tourism, states also establish state slogans, which are unofficial and change more often than state mottos. A separate list of U.S. state slogans is also available, as well as a list of U.S. state nicknames.
Mottos for countries are listed separately.
- Alabama: Audemus jura nostra defendere (Latin, "We dare defend our rights")
- Alaska: North to the future
- Arizona: Ditat Deus (Latin, "God enriches")
- Arkansas: Regnat populus (Latin, "The people rule")
- California: Eureka (Greek, "I have found it")
- Colorado: Nil sine numine (Latin, "Nothing without providence")
- Connecticut: Qui transtulit sustinet (Latin, "He who transplanted, 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 (Hawaiian, "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness")
- Idaho: Esto perpetua (Latin, "Let it be perpetual")
- 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 (Latin, "To the stars through difficulty")
- Kentucky: United we stand, divided we fall
- Louisiana: Union, justice, and confidence
- Maine: Dirigo (Latin, "I direct" or "I lead")
- Maryland: Fatti maschi, parole femmine (Italian, "Manly deeds, womanly words" or "Deeds are male, words are female")
- Massachusetts: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (Latin, "By the sword she seeks peace under liberty")
- Michigan: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice (Latin, "If you seek a beautiful peninsula, look around you")
- Minnesota: L'étoile du Nord (French, "The north star")
- Mississippi: Virtute et armis (Latin, "By virtue and arms")
- Missouri: Salus populi suprema lex esto (Latin, "Let the good of the people be the supreme law")
- Montana: Oro y plata (Spanish, "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 (Latin, "It grows as it goes")
- New York: Excelsior (Latin, "Higher")
- North Carolina: Esse quam videri (Latin, "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 vincit omnia (Latin, "Work conquers all")
- Oregon: Alis volat propiis (Latin, "She flies with her own wings")
- Pennsylvania: Virtue, liberty, and independence
- Rhode Island: Hope
- South Carolina: Dum spiro, spero (Latin, "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 (Latin, "Thus always to tyrants")
- Washington: Al-ki (Chinook Jargon, "By and by")
- West Virginia: Montani semper liberi (Latin, "Mountaineers are always free")
- Wisconsin: Forward
- Wyoming: Equal rights
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