View Poll Results: Best State Motto?
Alabama - We Dare to Defend Our Rights
0 0%
Alaska - North to the Future
0 0%
Arizona - God Enriches
0 0%
Arkansas - The People Rule
0 0%
California - Eureka!
8 8.42%
Connecticut - He who transplanted sustains
0 0%
Delaware - Liberty And Independence
1 1.05%
Florida - In God We Trust
2 2.11%
Georgia - Wisdom, Justice, Moderation
5 5.26%
Hawaii - The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness
0 0%
Idaho - Let It Be Perpetual
0 0%
Illinois - State Sovereignty, National Union
1 1.05%
Indiana - The Crossroads of America
1 1.05%
Iowa - Our Liberties We Prize And Our Rights We Will Maintain
0 0%
Kansas - To The Stars Through Difficulties
4 4.21%
Kentucky - Let Us Be Grateful to God
0 0%
Louisiana - Union, Justice, and Confidence
2 2.11%
Maine - I Direct
2 2.11%
Maryland - Strong Deeds, Gentle Words / By the Shield of Your Good Will You Have Crowned Us / Grow and Multiply
0 0%
Massachusetts - By the Sword We Seek Peace, But Peace Only Under Liberty
1 1.05%
Michigan - If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look About You / I Will Defend
1 1.05%
Minnesota - The Star of the North / I Long to See What is Beyond
3 3.16%
Mississippi - By Valor of Arms
0 0%
Missouri - The Welfare of the People is the Highest Law
1 1.05%
Montana - Gold and Silver
1 1.05%
Nebraska - Equality Before the Law
0 0%
Nevada - All For Our Country
0 0%
New Hampshire - Live Free or Die
23 24.21%
New Jersey - Liberty and Prosperity
1 1.05%
New Mexico - It Goes by Growing
0 0%
New York - Ever Upward! (Excelsior!)
5 5.26%
North Carolina - To Be, Rather Than to Seem
9 9.47%
North Dakota - Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable / Strength from the Soil
0 0%
Ohio - With God, All Things are Possible
0 0%
Oklahoma - Hard Work Conquers All Things
2 2.11%
Oregon - She Flies with Her Own Wings
0 0%
Pennsylvania - Virtue, Liberty, and Independence
3 3.16%
Rhode Island - Hope
4 4.21%
South Carolina - While I Breathe, I Hope / Prepared in Minds and Resources
3 3.16%
South Dakota - Under God the People Rule
1 1.05%
Tennessee - Agriculture and Commerce
0 0%
Texas - Friendship
1 1.05%
Utah - Industry
0 0%
Vermont - Freedom and Unity / May the 14th Star Shine Bright
0 0%
Virginia - Thus Always to Tyrants (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
7 7.37%
Washington State - By and By
1 1.05%
West Virginia - Mountaineers Are Always Free
1 1.05%
Wisconsin - Forward
0 0%
Wyoning - Equal Rights / Let Weapons Yield to the Toga
1 1.05%
Colorado - Nothing Without Providence
0 0%
03-15-2023, 03:57 PM
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A lot of mottos are in Latin but they will be typed in English so y'all can understand them.
03-15-2023, 06:44 PM
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Location: Harrisburg, PA
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Virginia. Their state motto along with their flag is absolutely hardcore and a symbol of hope for the future of humanity.
03-15-2023, 06:54 PM
Location: North Caroline
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To be, rather than to seem
03-15-2023, 07:06 PM
Location: West Seattle
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North Carolina's is cool
03-15-2023, 07:11 PM
Location: Florida
2,337 posts, read
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Reputation: 3607
Gotta go with New Hampshire on this one.
03-15-2023, 07:13 PM
Location: East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area
23,527 posts, read
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Reputation: 23951
“Hope” - Rhode Island.
03-15-2023, 08:16 PM
Location: Northern Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
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Virginia. Their state motto along with their flag is absolutely hardcore and a symbol of hope for the future of humanity.
It's no longer really used much actually. It may not have ever been officially changed, but in practice the motto the state puts everywhere these days is really the rather stupid and generic "Virginia is for Lovers".
03-15-2023, 08:56 PM
Location: 32°19'03.7"N 106°43'55.9"W
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Oklahoma blows this field away in my opinion.
03-15-2023, 09:05 PM
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New Hampshire for the win.
03-15-2023, 10:39 PM
Location: East Coast Superiority
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