List of state mottos

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This page lists state and national mottos for the world's independent states and if applicable, their component states. The mottos for some states lacking general international recognition and some extinct states are listed, but their names are not bolded.

A state motto is used to describe the intent or motivation of the state in a short phrase. For example, it can be included on a country's coat of arms, coins or banknotes. Some countries choose not to have a national motto.

[edit] A

• Algeria: بالشعب و للشعب (Arabic, "By the people and for the people")^[1]
• Andora: Virtus, Unita, Fortior (Latin, "Strength united is stronger")^[2]
• Antigua and Barbuda: Each endeavouring, all achieving^[3]
• Argentina: En Unión y Libertad (Spanish, "In Union and Liberty")^[4]
• Armenia: Մեկ Ազգ , Մեկ Մշակույթ (Armenian, One Nation, One Culture)^[5]
• Aruba: One Happy Island
• Australia: none, formerly Advance Australia^[6]
  • Australian Capital Territory: For the Queen, the law and the people^[7]
  • New South Wales: Orta recens quam pura nites (Latin, "Newly risen, how brightly you shine")^[8]
  • Northern Territory: none
  • Queensland: Audax at fidelis (Latin, "Bold but faithful")^[9]
  • South Australia: none, formerly Faith and Courage^[10]
  • Tasmania: Ubertas et fidelitas (Latin, "Fertility and Faithfulness")^[11]
  • Victoria: Peace and Prosperity^[12]
  • Western Australia: none
• Austria: none. Formerly AEIOU, possibly standing for Austriae est imperare orbi universo (Latin, "It is Austria's destiny to rule the world")
• Austria-Hungary: Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter (Latin, "Indivisible and inseparable")
• Azerbaijan: Once raised flag will never go down

[edit] B

• Bahamas: Forward, Upward, Onward Together^[13]
• Bangladesh: none
• Barbados: Pride and Industry^[14]
• Belarus: none
• Belgium: Eendracht maakt macht, L'union fait la force and Einigkeit gibt Stärke (Dutch, French and German, "Unity gives Strength")^[15]
• Belize: Sub umbra floreo (Latin, "Under the shade I flourish")^[16]
• Benin: Fraternité, Justice, Travail (French, "Fellowship, Justice, Labour")^[17]
• Bhutan: One Nation, One People
• Bolivia: La Unión es la Fuerza (Spanish, "The Union is Strength")^[18]
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: none
• Botswana: Pula (Tswana, "Rain")^[19]

• Brazil: Ordem e progresso (Portuguese, "Order and progress")^[20]
  • São Paulo State: Pro Brasilia fiant eximia (Latin, "For Brazil do the best")^[21]
  • São Paulo City: Non ducor duco (Latin, "I am not led, I lead")^[22]
  • Minas Gerais : Libertas quæ sera tamen (Latin, "Liberty even when it comes late")^[23]
• Brunei: Always in service with God's guidance^[24]
• Bulgaria: Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian, "Strength through Unity")^[25]
• Burkina Faso: Unité, Progrès, Justice (French, "Unity, Progress, Justice")^[26]
• Burundi: Unité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Unity, Work, Progress")^[27]

[edit] C

• Cambodia: Nation, Religion, King^[28]
• Cameroon: Paix - Travail - Patrie (French, "Peace, Work, Fatherland")^[29]
• Canada: A mari usque ad mare (Latin, "From sea to sea")^[30]
  • Alberta: Fortis et liber (Latin, "Strong and free")^[31]
  • British Columbia: Splendor sine occasu (Latin, "Splendour without diminishment")^[32]
  • Manitoba: Gloriosus et liber (Latin, "Glorious and free")^[33]
  • New Brunswick: Spem reduxit (Latin, "Hope was restored")^[34]
  • Newfoundland and Labrador: Quaerite primum regnum dei (Latin, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God")^[35]
  • Northwest Territories: none; One people, many voices is inscribed in several languages on the ceremonial mace of the Northwest Territories Legislature
  • Nova Scotia: Munit haec et altera vincit (Latin, "One defends and the other conquers")^[36]
  • Nunavut: Nunavut sanginivut (Inuktitut, "Nunavut, our strength" or "Our land, our strength")^[37]
  • Ontario: Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet (Latin, "Loyal she began, loyal she remains")^[38]
  • Prince Edward Island: Parva sub ingenti (Latin, "The small under the protection of the great")^[39]
  • Quebec: Je me souviens (French, "I remember")^[40]
    

    

    License plates issued in Quebec bear the state motto, Je me souviens ("I remember").
  • Saskatchewan: Multis e gentibus vires (Latin, "From many peoples, strength")^[41]
  • Yukon: none
• Central African Republic: Unité, Dignité, Travail (French, "Unity, Dignity, Work")^[42]
• Chad: Unité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Unity, Work, Progress")^[43]
• Chile: Por la razón o la fuerza (Spanish, "By reason or by strength")^[44]
  • previously Post Tenebras Lux (Latin, "After darkness, Light")
  • previously Aut concilio, aut ense (Latin, "By reason or by the sword")
• Colombia: Libertad y orden (Spanish, "Freedom and order")^[45]
  • Antioquia: Antioquia nueva: un hogar para la vida (Spanish, "A new Antioch: a home for the life")
  • Santander: Siempre Adelante (Spanish, "Always to the front")
• Comoros: Unité, Justice, Progrès (French, "Unity, justice, progress")^[46]
• Confederate States of America: Deo Vindice (Latin, "Under God, Our Vindicator")^[47]
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Justice - Paix - Travail (French, "Justice, Peace, Work")^[48]
• Republic of the Congo: Unité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Unity, Work, Progress")^[49]
• Costa Rica: Vivan siempre el trabajo y la paz (Spanish, "Long live work and peace")
• Côte d'Ivoire: Union, Discipline, Travail (French, Unity, Discipline, Labor)^[50]
• Croatia: none
• Cuba: Patria o muerte (Spanish, "Homeland or death")^[51]
• Czech Republic: Pravda vítězí! (Czech, "Truth prevails!")^[52]

[edit] D

• Denmark: Royal motto: Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke (Danish, "God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength")
• Djibouti: Unity, Equality, Peace^[53]
• Dominica: Après le Bondie, C'est la Ter (French Patois, "After the Good Lord, we love the Earth")^[54]
• Dominican Republic: Dios, Patria, Libertad (Spanish, "God, Country, Liberty")^[55]

[edit] E

• East Timor: Honra, pátria e povo (Portuguese, "Honour, homeland and people")^[56]
• Ecuador: Dios, patria y libertad (Spanish, "God, homeland and liberty")^{[citation needed]}
• El Salvador: Dios, Unión, Libertad (Spanish, "God, Union, Liberty")^[57]
• Equatorial Guinea: Unidad, Paz, Justicia (Spanish, "Unity, Peace, Justice")^[58]
• European Union: In varietate concordia (Latin for United in diversity, Unie dans la diversité, etc. (Translated into the languages of the member states of the EU))^[59]

[edit] F

• Fiji: Rerevaka na Kalou ka Doka na Tui (Fijian, "Fear God and honour the Queen")^[60]
• Finland: none
• France: Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French, "Liberty, equality, fraternity")^[61]
  • Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: A mare labor

[edit] G

• Gabon: Union, Travail, Justice (French, "Union, Work, Justice")^[62]
• The Gambia: Progress, Peace, Prosperity^[63]
• Georgia: ძალა ერთობაშია! (Dzala ertobashia) (Georgian, "Strength is in Unity")^[64]
• Germany: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (German, "Unity and Justice and Freedom")
• Ghana: Freedom and Justice^[65]
• Greece: Ελευθερία ή θάνατος (transliterated as "Eleutheria i thanatos") (Greek, "Liberty or death")
• Grenada: Ever Conscious of God We Aspire, and Advance as One People^[66]
• Guatemala: El País de la Eterna Primavera (Spanish, "The country with the eternal spring ")^{[citation needed]}
• Guinea: Travail, Justice, Solidarité (French, "Work, Justice, Solidarity")^[67]
• Guinea-Bissau: Unidade, Luta, Progresso (Portuguese, "Unity, Struggle, Progress")^[68]
• Guyana: One people, one nation, one destiny^[69]

[edit] H

• Haiti: L'union fait la force (French, "Unity is strength")^[70]
• Holy See: none
• Honduras: Libre, Soberana E Independiente(Spanish, "Free, sovereign and independent")^[71]
• Hungary: none, formerly Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae (Latin, "Kingdom of Mary, the Patron of Hungary")

[edit] I

• Iceland: none
• India: सत्यमेव जयते (Satyameva Jayate) (Sanskrit, "Truth alone triumphs")^[72]
• Indonesia: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Old Javanese, "Unity in diversity")^[73]
• Iran: de facto: Esteqlāl, āzādī, jomhūrī-ye eslāmī^[74] (Persian, "Independence, freedom, (the) Islamic Republic"); de jure: Allaho Akbar (Arabic, "God is Great")^[75]
• Iraq: الله أكبر (Allahu Akbar) (Arabic, "God is Great")^[76]
• Ireland: As i was
• Italy: none

[edit] J

• Jamaica: Out of many, one people^[77]
• Japan: none.
• Jordan: الله الوطن المليك (Allah, Alwattan, Almaleek) God, country, sovereign / الاردن اولا (Al Urdun Awallan) Jordan First (Former is official)

[edit] K

• Kenya: Harambee (Swahili, "Let's work together")^[78]
• Kiribati: Te mauri, te raoi ao te tabomoa (Kiribati, "Health, Peace and Prosperity")^[79]
• Korea, North: 강성대국(强盛大國 (Korean, "Prosperous and great country")^{[citation needed]}
• Korea, South: 홍익인간 (弘益人間 (Korean, "Broadly benefit humanity"^{[citation needed]}
• Kuwait: none

[edit] L

• Laos: Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity^[80]
• Latvia: Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (Latvian, "For Fatherland and Freedom")^{[citation needed]}
• Lesotho: Khotso, Pula, Nala (Sotho, "Peace, Rain, Prosperity")^[81]
• Lebanon: "All for our nation"
• Liberia: The love of liberty brought us here^[82]
• Lithuania: Tautos jėga vienybėje! (Lithuanian, "The strength of the nation is unity!")
• Luxembourg: Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sinn (Luxembourgish, "We wish to remain what we are")^[83]

[edit] M

• Madagascar: Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoana (Malagasy, "Ancestral-land, Liberty, Progress")^[84]
• Malawi: Unity and Freedom^[85]
• Malaysia: Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu (Malay, "Unity is Strength")^[86]
• Mali: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French, "One people, one goal, one faith")^[87]
• Mauritania: شرف إخاء ع or Honneur, Fraternité, Justice (Arabic and French, "Honor, Fraternity, Justice")^[88]
• Mauritius: Stella Clavisque Maris Indici (Latin, "Star and key of the Indian Ocean")^[89]
• Monaco: Deo juvante (Latin, "With God's help")^[90]
• Montenegro: none
• Morocco: الله، الوطن، الملك (Arabic, "God, the Country, the King")^[91]

[edit] N

• Namibia: Unity, liberty, justice^[92]
• Nauru: God's will first^[93]
• Nepal: जननी जन्मभूमिष्च स्वर्गादपि गरियसि (Sanskrit, "Mother and motherland are greater than heaven")^[94]
• Netherlands: Je maintiendrai, Ik zal handhaven (French, Dutch "I will maintain")^[95]
  • Zeeland: Luctor et Emergo, Ik worstel en kom boven (Latin, Dutch, "I struggle and emerge")
  • South Holland: Vigilate Deo Confidentes, Waakt vertrouwende op God (Latin, Dutch, "Guard trusting in God")
  • Groningen Vis unita fortior, Vereende kracht is sterker (Latin, Dutch: "United Strength is Stronger")
• Netherlands Antilles: Libertate unanimus (Latin, "Unified by freedom")
• New Zealand: none (formerly Onward^[96])
• Nicaragua: En Dios Confiamos (Spanish, "In god we trust")^[97]
• Niger: Fraternité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Fraternity, Work, Progress")^[98]
• Nigeria: Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress^[99]
• Norfolk Island: Inasmuch
• Norway: none Royal motto: Alt for Norge (Norwegian, "Everything for Norway")

[edit] O

• Oman: None

[edit] P

• Pakistan: Yaqeen-mukkam , ittihad , nizam (Urdu, "Faith (self-confidence), unity, discipline")^[100]
• Panama: Pro mundi beneficio (Latin, "For the benefit of the world")^[101]
• Papua New Guinea: Unity in Diversity^{[citation needed]}
• Paraguay: Paz y justicia (Spanish, "Peace and justice")^[102]
• Perú: Firme y feliz por la unión
• Philippines: Maka-Diyos, Maka-Tao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa (Tagalog, "God, People, Nature and Country")^[103]
  • Former: Isang bansa, isang diwa (Tagalog, "One nation, one spirit")
• Poland: none
• Portugal: Esta é a ditosa pátria minha amada (Portuguese , "This is my beloved fortunate motherland")
  • Azores: Antes morrer livres que em paz sujeitos (Portuguese, "To die free rather than to be subjugated in peace")
  • Madeira: Das ilhas, as mais belas e livres (Portuguese, "Of the islands, the most beautiful and free")

[edit] Q

• Qatar: none

[edit] R

• Republika Srpska: Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava (Serbian), "Only Unity Saves the Serbs"
• Roman Republic and Roman Empire: Senatus Populusque Romanus (Latin, "The Roman Senate and people", often abbreviated SPQR)
• Romania: none; formerly Nihil Sine Deo (Latin, "Nothing without God")
• Rwanda: Unity, Work, Patriotism^[104]

[edit] S

• Saint Kitts and Nevis: Country Above Self^[105]
• Saint Lucia: The land, the people, the light^[106]
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Pax et justitia (Latin, "Peace and justice")^[107]
• Samoa: Fa'avae i le Atua Samoa (Samoan, "God be the Foundation of Samoa")^[108]
• San Marino: Libertas (Latin, "Liberty")^[109]
• Saudi Arabia: لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله (lā ilāhā illā-llāhu; muhammadu-r-rasūlu-llāhi) (Arabic, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet")^[110]
• Senegal: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French, "One people, one goal, one faith")^[111]
• Serbia: Само слога србина спашава Samo sloga Srbina spašava unofficial (Serbian, "Only unity saves the Serbs")
• Seychelles: Finis coronat opus (Latin, "The end crowns the work")^[112]
• Sierra Leone: Unity, freedom, justice^[113]
• Singapore: Majulah Singapura (Malay, "Onward Singapore")^[114]
• Slovakia: none
• Slovenia: none
• Solomon Islands: To lead is to serve^[115]
• South Africa: !ke e: /xarra //ke (/Xam, "Diverse people unite" or "Unity in Diversity")^[116]
  • Former: Ex Unitate Vires (Latin, "From unity, strength", from 1910-2000)
• Soviet Union: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Russian, "Workers of the world, unite!")
• Spain: Plus Ultra (Latin, "Further beyond")^[117]
  • Former: Una, grande y libre (Spanish, "One, great and free", under Franco's regime)^[117]
  • Andalusia: Andalucía por sí, para España y la Humanidad (Spanish, "Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for Mankind")
  • Asturias: Hoc signo tuetur pius, Hoc signo vincitur inimicus (Latin, "This sign defends the pious, this sign defeats the enemy")
  • Catalonia: Som i serem (Catalan, "We are and will be")
• Sudan: النصر لن (Al-Nasr Lana: Arabic, "Victory is Ours")^[118]
• Suriname: Justitia, pietas, fides (Latin, "Justice, piety, loyalty")^[119]
• Swaziland: Siyinqaba (Swati, "We are the fortress")^[120]
• Sweden: royal motto: För Sverige - i tiden (Swedish, "For Sweden - With the times") (See all royal mottos)
• Switzerland: Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (Latin, "One for all, all for one", traditional, but not official)
• Syria: none

[edit] T

• Tanzania: Uhuru na Umoja (Swahili, "Freedom and Unity")^[121]
• Togo: Travail, Liberté, Patrie (French, "Work, liberty, homeland")^[122]
• Tonga: Ko e ʻOtua mo Tonga ko hoku tofiʻa (Tongan, "God and Tonga are my Inheritance")^[123]
• Trinidad and Tobago: Together we aspire, together we achieve^[124]
• Tunisia: Order, Freedom, and Justice^[125]
• Turkey: Egemenlik kayıtsız şartsız milletindir. (Turkish, "Sovereignty rests unconditionally with the nation")^[126]
  and Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh. (Turkish, "Peace in the homeland, peace in the world.")^[127]
• Tuvalu: Tuvalu mo te Atua (Tuvaluan, "Tuvalu for the Almighty")^[128]

Tahiti: If the work is pleasant and joyful, the rich would have found a way to keep it for themselves.(Wijekoon)

[edit] U

• Uganda: For God and My Country^[129]
• Ukraine: none
• United Kingdom: Dieu et mon droit (French, "God and my right", Royal motto)^[130]
  • England: Dieu et mon droit (French, "God and my right")
  • Scotland: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin, "No one provokes me with impunity")
  • Wales: Y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn (Welsh, "The red dragon should go forward", unofficial); Ich Dien (German, "I serve", motto of Prince of Wales)
  • Northern Ireland: Quis separabit (Latin, "Who will separate us?")
  • Isle of Man: Quocunque jeceris stabit (Latin, "Whithersoever you throw it, it will stand")
  • Anguilla: Strength and Endurance^[131]
  • Bermuda: Quo Fata Ferunt (Latin, "Whither the Fates carry [us]")
  • British Indian Ocean Territory: In tutela nostra Limuria (Latin, "Limuria is in our charge")
  • British Virgin Islands: Vigilate (Latin, "Be Watchful")^[132]
  • Cayman Islands: He hath founded it upon the seas
  • Falkland Islands: Desire the right
  • Gibraltar: Nulli expugnabilis hosti (Latin, "Conquerable by no enemy")
  • Montserrat: Each Endeavouring, All Achieving^[133]
  • Saint Helena: Loyal and Unshakeable
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Leo Terram Propriam Protegat (Latin, "Let the lion protect its own land")
  • Tristan da Cunha: Our faith is our strength
  • Turks and Caicos Islands: One people, one nation, one destiny^[134]

• United States: In God We Trust (official) and E pluribus unum (Latin, "Out of many, one") (de-facto)
  • There is a separate list of U.S. state mottos
• Uruguay: Libertad o Muerte (Spanish, "Liberty or Death")^[135]

[edit] V

• Vanuatu: Long God yumi stanap (Bislama, "Let us stand firm in God")^[136]
• Venezuela:
  • Amazonas: Honor y Lealtad (Spanish,"Honor and Loyalty")
  • Anzoátegui: Tumba de sus tiranos (Spanish, "Tomb of its tyrants")
  • Barinas: Dios y Federación (Spanish, "God and Federation")
  • Carabobo: Ocassus servitutis (Latin, "Decline of the servitude"; but also: "End of slavery")
  • Cojedes: Ad Sum (Latin, "I am here")
  • Delta Amacuro: La Paz en la Federación (Spanish, "The Peace in the Federation")
  • Falcón: Dios y Federación (Spanish, "God and Federation")
  • Guárico: Si amas la libertad, ven a mis pampas (Spanish, "If you love liberty, come to my plains")
  • Monagas: Resistió con valor (Spanish, "It resisted with courage")
  • Portuguesa: Honor y Gloria (Spanish, "Honor and Glory")
  • Vargas: Igualdad, Libertad, Propiedad y Seguridad (Spanish, "Equality, Liberty, Property -possibly Propriety- and Security")
• Vietnam: Ðộc lập, tự do, hạnh phúc (Vietnamese, "Independence, liberty and happiness")^{[citation needed]}

[edit] W

• Western Sahara (SADR): حرية ديمقراطية وحدة (Hassānīya Arabic, "Liberty, Democracy, Unity")^[137]

[edit] Y

• Yemen: None

[edit] Z

• Zambia: One Zambia, One Nation^[138]
• Zimbabwe: Unity, Freedom, Work^[139]

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