This flashcard set covers the state mottos of all 50 states of the United States of America, as well as the District of Columbia. Translations are provided where applicable.
There are 51 flash cards in this set (9 pages to print.)
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| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Audemus jura nostra defendere / (We dare defend our rights) |
| Alaska | North to the future |
| Arizona | Ditat Deus / (God enriches) |
| Arkansas | Regnat populus / (The people rule) |
| California | Eureka (Εὕρηκα) / (I have found it) |
| Colorado | Nil sine numine / (Nothing without the Deity) |
| Connecticut | Qui transtulit sustinet / (He who transplanted sustains) |
| Delaware | Liberty and Independence |
| District of Columbia | Justitia Omnibus / (Justice for All) |
| Florida | In God We Trust |
| Georgia | Wisdom, justice, and moderation |
| Hawaii | Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono / (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.) |
| Idaho | Esto perpetua / (Let it be perpetual) |
| Illinois | State sovereignty, national union |
| Indiana | The Crossroads of America |
| Iowa | Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain |
| Kansas | Ad astra per aspera / (To the stars through difficulties) |
| Kentucky | United we stand, divided we fall / Deo gratiam habeamus (Let us be grateful to God) |
| Louisiana | Union, justice, confidence |
| Maine | Dirigo / (I lead) |
| Maryland | Fatti maschii, parole femine / (Manly deeds, womanly words) |
| Massachusetts | Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem / (By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty) |
| Michigan | Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice / (If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you) |
| Minnesota | L'étoile du Nord / (The star of the North) |
| Mississippi | Virtute et armis / (By valor and arms) |
| Missouri | Salus populi suprema lex esto / (Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law) |
| Montana | Oro y plata / (Gold and silver) |
| Nebraska | Equality before the law |
| Nevada | All For Our Country and Battle Born |
| New Hampshire | Live Free or Die |
| New Jersey | Liberty and prosperity |
| 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 | Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable / Serit ut alteri saeclo prosit (One sows for the benefit of another age) |
| Ohio | With God, all things are possible |
| Oklahoma | Labor omnia vincit / (Labor conquers all things) |
| Oregon | Alis volat propriis / (She flies with her own wings) |
| Pennsylvania | Virtue, Liberty, and Independence |
| Rhode Island | Hope |
| South Carolina | Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope) / Animis opibusque parati (Ready in soul and resource) |
| South Dakota | Under God the people rule |
| Tennessee | Agriculture and Commerce |
| Texas | Friendship |
| Utah | Industry |
| Vermont | Freedom and Unity |
| Virginia | Sic semper tyrannis / (Thus always to tyrants) |
| Washington | Al-ki / (By and by) |
| West Virginia | Montani semper liberi / (Mountaineers are always free) |
| Wisconsin | Forward |
| Wyoming | Equal Rights |
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