State Mottos

• california --> eureka --> i have found it
• michigan --> si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice --> if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you
• mississippi --> virtute et armis --> by valor and arms
• new york --> excelsior --> ever upward
• south carolina --> dum spiro spero / animis opibusque parati --> while i breathe, i hope / prepared in minds and resources
• virginia --> sic semper tyrannis --> thus always to tyrants
• north carolina --> esse quam videri --> to be, rather than to seem
• kansas --> ad astra per aspera --> to the stars through difficulties
• wyoming --> cedant arma togae --> let arms yield to the toga
• alabama --> audemus jura nostra defendere --> we dare to defend our rights
• arizona --> ditat deus --> god enriches
• arkansas --> regnat populus --> the people rule
• colorado --> nil sine numine --> nothing without providence
• connecticut --> qui transtulit sustinet --> he who transplanted sustains
• DC --> justitia omnibus --> justice for all
• idaho --> esto perpetua --> let it be perpetual
• kentucky --> deo gratiam habeamus --> let us be grateful to god
• maine --> dirigo --> i direct
• maryland --> scuto bonae voluntatis tuae coronasti nos / crescite et multiplicamini --> you have crowned us with the shield of your good will / increase and multiply
• massachusetts --> ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem --> by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty
• missouri --> salus populi suprema lex esto --> let the welfare of the people be the supreme law
• new mexico --> crescit eundo --> it grows as it goes
• north dakota --> serit ut alteri saeclo prosit --> one sows for the benefit of another age
• oklahoma --> labor omnia vincit --> labor conquers all things
• oregon --> alis volat propriis --> she flies with her own wings
• vermont --> stella quarta decima fulgeat --> may the fourteenth star shine bright
• west virginia --> montani semper liberi --> mountaineers are always free