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US Latin State Mottos
Arizona: Diat Deus ("God enriches")
Arkansas: Regnat Populus ("The people rule")
California: Eureka! ("I've found it!")
Colorado: Nil sine numine ("Nothing without God")
Connecticut: Qui transtulit sustinet ("He who came across, holds up.")
District of Columbia: Iustitia omnibus ("Justice for all.")
Idaho: Esto perpetua ("Be always")
ad astra per aspera
To the stars through dificulties (motto of the state of Kansas)
Maine: Dirigo ("I direct.")
Massachusettes: Ense petit placidam sub libertate ("With the sword he seeks peace under liberty")
Michigan: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice ("If you are seeking a pleasant peninsula, look around")
civilitas successit barbarum
Civilization succeeds barbarism (motto of Minnesota)
Mississippi: Virtute et armis ("By courage and arms")
Missouri: Salus populi suprema lex est. ("The welfare of the people is the supreme law.")
New Mexico: Crescit eundo ("It grows as it grows")
New York: Excelsior! ("Higher!")
North Carolina: Esse quam videri ("To be rather than to seem")
Oklahoma: Labor omnia vincit ("Work conquers all")
Puerto Rico: Joannes set noman eius ("John is his name.")
South Carolina: Dum spiro, spero ("While I breath, I hope")
Oregon: Alis volat propiis (S/he Flies With Her/His Own Wings
The motto was adopted in 1854, then replaced by "The Union" in 1957, and then re-adopted again in 1987.
dum spiro, spero
While I breathe, I hope (a motto of South Carolina)
crescite et multiplicamini
Increase and multiply (motto of Maryland)
cedant arma togae
Let arms yield to the toga (motto of Wyoming)
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