| State | Motto | Translation (If applicable)
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| Alabama | Audemus jura nostra defendere | (Latin, "We dare defend our rights")
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| Alaska | North to the future |
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| Arizona | Ditat Deus | (Latin, "God enriches")
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| Arkansas | Regnat populus | (Latin, "The people rule")
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| California | Eureka | (Greek, "I have found it")
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| Colorado | Nil sine numine | (Latin, "Nothing without providence")
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| Connecticut | Qui transtulit sustinet | (Latin, "He who transplanted, sustains")
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| Delaware | Liberty and independence |
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| Florida | In God we trust |
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| Georgia | Wisdom, justice, and moderation |
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| Hawaii | Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono | (Hawaiian, "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness")
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| Idaho | Esto perpetua | (Latin, "Let it be perpetual")
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| Illinois | State sovereignty, national union |
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| Iowa | Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain |
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| Indiana | The crossroads of America |
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| Kansas | Ad astra per aspera | (Latin, "To the stars through difficulty")
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| Kentucky | United we stand, divided we fall |
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| Louisiana | Union, justice, and confidence |
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| Maine | Dirigo | (Latin, "I direct" or "I lead")
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| Maryland | Fatti maschii, parole femine | (Italian, literally "Manly deeds, womanly words")
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| Massachusetts | Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem | (Latin, "By the sword she seeks peace under liberty")
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| Michigan | Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice | (Latin, "If you seek a beautiful peninsula, look around you" — an alteration of the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral, London.)
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| Minnesota | L'étoile du Nord | (French, "The star of the North")
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| Mississippi | Virtute et armis | (Latin, "By virtue and arms")
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| Missouri | Salus populi suprema lex esto | (Latin, "Let the good of the people be the supreme law")
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| Montana | Oro y plata | (Spanish, "Gold and silver")
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| Nebraska | Equality before the law |
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| Nevada | All for our country |
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| New Hampshire | Live Free or Die |
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| New Jersey | Liberty and prosperity |
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| New Mexico | Crescit eundo | (Latin, "It grows as it goes")
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| New York | Excelsior | (Latin, "Higher")
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| North Carolina | Esse quam videri | (Latin, "To be rather than to seem")
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| North Dakota | Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable |
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| Ohio | With God, all things are possible |
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| Oklahoma | Labor vincit omnia | (Latin, "Work conquers all")
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| Oregon | Alis volat propiis | (Latin, "She flies with her own wings")
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| Pennsylvania | Virtue, liberty, and independence |
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| Rhode Island | Hope |
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| South Carolina | Dum spiro, spero | (Latin, "While I breathe, I hope")
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| South Dakota | Under God the people rule |
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| Tennessee | Agriculture and commerce |
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| Texas | Friendship |
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| Utah | Industry |
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| Vermont | Freedom and unity |
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| Virginia | Sic semper tyrannis | (Latin, "Thus always to tyrants")
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| Washington | Al-ki | (Chinook Jargon, "By and by")
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| West Virginia | Montani Semper Liberi | (Latin, "Mountaineers are always free")
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| Wisconsin | Forward |
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| Wyoming | Equal rights |
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