List of state mottos

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Here is a list of state mottos for countries and their subdivisions around the world.

Andorra: Virtus unita fortior (Latin, "Strength united is stronger")
Antigua and Barbuda: Each endeavouring, all achieving
Argentina: En uni? y libertad (Spanish, "In union and freedom")
Bahamas: Forward upward onward together
Barbados: Pride and Industry
Belgium: L'union fait la force and Eendracht maakt macht (French and Dutch, "Unity is strength")
Belize: Sub umbra floreo (Latin, "Under the shade I flourish")
Brazil: Ordem e progresso (Portuguese, "Order and progress")
Brunei: Brunei darussalam (Malay, "Brunei, the abode of peace")
Bulgaria: Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian, "Union is strength")
Cambodia: "Nation, Religion, King"
Canada: A mari usque ad mare (Latin, "From sea to sea")
- Alberta: Fortis et liber (Latin, "Strong and free")
- British Columbia: Splendor sine occasu (Latin, "Splendour without diminishment")
- Manitoba: Gloriosus et liber (Latin, "Glorious and free")
- New Brunswick: Spem reduxit (Latin, "Hope was restored")
- Newfoundland and Labrador: Quaerite primum regnum dei (Latin, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God")
- Nova Scotia: Munit haec et altera vincit (Latin, "One defends and the other conquers")
- Nunavut: Nunavut sanginivut (Inuktitut, "Nunavut our strength" or "Our land, our strength")
- Ontario: Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet (Latin, "Loyal she began, loyal she remains")
- Prince Edward Island: Parva sub ingenti (Latin, "The small under the protection of the great")
- Quebec: Je me souviens (French, "I remember")
- Saskatchewan: Multis e gentibus vires (Latin, "From many peoples, strength")
Chile: Por la razón o la fuerza (Spanish, "By reason or by strength")
- Post Tenebras Lux (Latin, "After darkness, Light") (Old one)
- Aut concilio, aut ense (Latin, "By the reason or by the sword") (Old One)
Colombia: Libertad y orden (Spanish, "Freedom and order")
Czechoslovakia: Pravda v?ěz? (Czech, "Truth prevails!")
East Timor: Honra, pàtria e povo (Portuguese, "Honour, country and people")
European Union: United in diversity
Fiji: Rerevaka na Kalou ka Doka na Tui ("Fear God and honour the Queen")
France: Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French, "Liberty, equality, brotherhood")
Germany: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (German, "Unity and justice and freedom")
Gibraltar: Nulli expugnabilis hosti (Latin, "Conquered By No Enemy")
Greece: Ελευθερια η θανατος (Greek, "Liberty or death")
Guyana: One people, one nation, one destiny
Haiti: L'union fait la force (French, "Unity is strength")
India: Satyameva jayate (Sanskrit, "Truth alone triumphs")
Indonesia: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Old Javanese, "Unity in diversity")
Iran: Allahu Akbar (Arabic, "God is most great")
Kenya: Harambee (Swahili, "Let's work together")
Kiribati: Maaka te atua, karinea te uea; makatu i te atua, fakamamalu ki te tupu (Kiribati, "Fear God, respect the king")
Laos: "Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity"
Luxembourg: Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sin (Luxembourgeois, "We want to stay what we are")
Malaysia: Bersekutu bertambah mutu (Malay, "Unity provides strength")
Mauritius: Stella clavisque Maris Indici (Latin, "Star and key of the Indian Ocean")
Mexico: El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz (Spanish, "Respect for the rights of others is peace")
Monaco: Prince of Monaco's Motto: Deo juvante (Latin, "With God's help")
Namibia: Unity, liberty, justice
Nauru: God's will first
Nepal: "The motherland is worth more than the kingdom of heaven"
Netherlands: Je maintiendrai (French, "I will maintain")
- Netherlands Antilles: Libertate unanimus (Latin, "Unified by freedom")
North Korea: "One is sure to win if he believes in and depends upon the people"
Norway: The King's motto: Alt for Norge (Norwegian, "All for Norway")
Philippines: Maka-Diyos, Maka-Tao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa (Filipino, “For Love of God, People, Nature and Country”)
Poland: Honor i Ojczyzna (Polish: "Honour and Homeland"); formerly: Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna (Polish, "God, Honour, Homeland")
Saint Lucia: The land, the people, the light
San Marino: Libertas (Latin, "Liberty")
Senegal: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French, "One people, one goal, one faith")
Seychelles: Finis coronat opus (Latin, "The end crowns the work")
Sierra Leone: Unity, freedom, justice
Singapore: Majulah Singapura (Malay, "Onward Singapore")
Spain: Plus ultra (Latin, "Further beyond")
- Andalusia: Andalucía para sí, para España y la humanidad (Spanish, "Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity")
Solomon Islands: To Lead is to serve
(Soviet Union: "Workers of the world, unite!")
Suriname: Justitia, pietas, fides (Latin, "Justice, piety, loyalty")
Swaziland: Siyinquaba (Swati, "We are the fortress")
Sweden: Royal motto: För Sverige i tiden (Swedish, "For Sweden, with the times")
Thailand: "Land of smiles"
Turkey: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh (Turkish, "Peace at home, peace in the world")
Tuvalu: Tuvalu mo te Atua (Tuvaluan, "Tuvalu for the Almighty")
Ukraine: Volja, zlagoda, dobro (Ukrainian, "Freedom, accord, goodness")
United Kingdom: Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French, "God and my right")
- Scotland: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin, "No one injures me with impunity")
- Wales: Cymru am byth (Welsh, "Wales for ever")
- Cayman Islands: He hath founded it upon the seas
- Falkland Islands: Desire the right
United States: In God we trust and E Pluribus Unum (Latin, "Out of many, one"). There is a separate list of U.S. state mottos
Uruguay: Libertad o muerte (Spanish, "Liberty or death")
Vietnam: ?#7897;c lập, tự do, hạnh ph? (Vietnamese, "Independence, liberty, and happiness")