State Mottoes Flashcards
Alabama
Audemus iura nostra defendere - we dare to defend our rights
Arizona
Ditat Deus - God enriches
Arkansas
Regnat Populus - the people rule
California
Eureka - I have found it
Colorado
Nil sine numine - nothing without divine guideance
Connecticut
Qui transtulit, sustinet - he who has transplanted, sustains
Dist. of Colombia
Iustitia omnibus - justice for all
Idaho
Esto Perpetua - may she last forever
Kansas
Ad astra per aspera - To the stars through difficulty
Kentucky
Deo gratiam habeamus - let us be grateful to god
Maine
Dirigo - I point the way
Maryland
- Scuto bonae voluntatis Tuae, coronasti nos - with the shield of your good will, you have covered us
- Crescite et multiplicamini - grow and multiply (rarely used)
Massachusetts
Ense petit placedam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks calm peace under liberty
Michigan
Si quaeris paeninsulam amoenam, circumspice - if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about
Mississippi
Virtute et Armis - by valor and arms
Missouri
Salus populi suprema lex esto - the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law
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
serit ut alteri saeclo prosit - one sows so that it benefits another age
Ohio
Imperium in imperio - an empire in an empire
Oklahoma
labor omnia vincit - Work conquers all
Oregon
Alis volat propriis - she flies on her own wings
South Carolina
- Dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope
- Animis opibusque parati - prepared in mind and in resources
Virginia
Sic semper tyrannis - thus ever to tyrants
West Virginia
Montani semper liberi - Mountaineers are always free
Wyoming
Cedant arma togae - Let arms yield to the toga
