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List of state mottos

Here is a list of state mottos for countries and their subdivisions around the world.

Andorra: Virtus unita fortior (Latin, "Strength united is stronger")
Argentina: En unión y libertad (Spanish, "In union and freedom")
Bahamas: Forward upward onward together
Belgium: L'union fait la force and Eendracht maakt macht (French and Dutch, "Unity is strength")
Belize: Sub umbra floreo (Latin, "Under the shade I flourish")
Brazil: Ordem e progresso (Portuguese, "Order and progress")
Brunei: Brunei darussalam (Malay, "Brunei, the abode of peace")
Bulgaria: Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian, "Union is strength")
Cambodia: "Nation, Religion, King"
Canada: A mari usque ad mare (Latin, "From sea to sea")
- Alberta: Fortis et liber (Latin, "Strong and free")
- British Columbia: Splendor sine occasu (Latin, "Splendour without diminishment")
- Manitoba: Gloriosus et liber (Latin, "Glorious and free")
- New Brunswick: Spem reduxit (Latin, "Hope was restored")
- Newfoundland and Labrador: Quaerite primum regnum dei (Latin, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God")
- Nova Scotia: Munit haec et altera vincit (Latin, "One defends and the other conquers")
- Nunavut: Nunavut sanginivut (Inuktitut, "Nunavut our strength" or "Our land, our strength")
- Ontario: Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet (Latin, "Loyal she began, loyal she remains")
- Prince Edward Island: Parva sub ingenti (Latin, "The small under the protection of the great")
- Quebec: Je me souviens (French, "I remember")
- Saskatchewan: Multis e gentibus vires (Latin, "From many peoples, strength")
Chile: Por la razón o la fuerza (Spanish, "By reason or by strength")
France: Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French, "Liberty, equality, brotherhood")
Germany: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (German, "Unity and justice and freedom")
Greece: Ελευθερια η θανατος (Greek, "Liberty or death")
Guyana: One people, one nation, one destiny
Haiti: L'union fait la force (French, "Unity is strength")
India: Satyameva jayate (Sanskrit, "Truth alone triumphs")
Indonesia: Bhinneka tunggal ika (Indonesia, "Unity in diversity")
Iran: Allahu Akbar (Arabic, "God is most great")
Kenya: Harambee (Swahili, "Let's work together")
Kiribati: Maaka te atua, karinea te uea; makatu i te atua, fakamamalu ki te tupu (Kiribati[?], "Fear God, respect the king")
North Korea: "One is sure to win if he believes in and depends upon the people"
Luxembourg: Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sin (Luxembourgeois, "We want to stay what we are")
Monaco: Prince of Monaco's Motto: Deo juvante (Latin, "With God's help")
Nauru: God's will first
Netherlands: Je maintiendrai (French, "I will maintain")
Philippines: Isang bansa, isang diwa (Filipino, "One nation, one spirit")
San Marino: Libertas (Latin, "Liberty")
Senegal: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French, "One people, one goal, one faith")
Sierra Leone: Unity, freedom, justice
Singapore: Majulah Singapura (Malay, "Onward Singapore")
Spain: Plus ultra (Latin, "Further beyond")
Suriname: Justitia, pietas, fides (Latin, "Justice, piety, loyalty")
Swaziland: Siyinquaba (Swati[?], "We are the fortress")
Sweden: Royal motto: För Sverige i tiden (Swedish, "For Sweden, with the times")
Thailand: "Land of smiles"
Turkey: "Peace at home, peace in the world"
Tuvalu: Tuvalu mo te Atua (Tuvaluan, "Tuvalu for the Almighty")
Ukraine: Volja, zlagoda, dobro (Ukrainian, "Freedom, accord, goodness")
United Kingdom: Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French, "God and my right")
- Scotland: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin, "No one injures me with impunity")
- Wales: Cymru am byth (Welsh, "Wales for ever")
- Cayman Islands: He hath founded it upon the seas
- Falkland Islands: Desire the right
United States: In God we trust (formerly E Pluribus Unum, Latin, "Out of many, one")
- Alabama: 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 by hard ways")
- Kentucky: United we stand, divided we fall
- Louisiana: Union, justice, and confidence
- Maine: Dirigo (Latin, "I direct")
- 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 quaerite 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
- Puerto Rico: Johannes est nomen eius (Latin, "John is his name")
- 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, "Mountain men are always free")
- Wisconsin: Forward
- Wyoming: Equal rights
Uruguay: Libertad o muerte (Spanish, "Liberty or death")