All 50 States in the US have declared official State mottos. Many of these official mottos are in latin and help symbolize the State's history and unique heritage. List below are the 50 state mottos plus District of Columbia translated where need be.
- Alabama "We dare defend our rights"
- Alaska "North to the Future"
- Arizona "God Enriches"
- Arkansas "The people rule"
- California "I have found it"
- Colorado "Nothing without Providence"
- Connecticut "He Who Transplanted Still Sustains"
- Delaware "Liberty and Independence"
- District of Columbia "Justice for all"
- Florida "In God We Trust"
- Georgia "Agriculture & Commerce", & "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation"
- Hawaii "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness"
- Idaho "It is Forever"
- Illinois "State Sovereignty--National Union"
- Indiana "The Crossroads of America
- Iowa "Our Liberties We Prize, & Our Rights We Will Maintain"
- Kansas "To the stars through difficulties"
- Kentucky "United We Stand, Divided We Fall"
- Louisiana "Union, Justice, and Confidence"
- Maine "I Direct"
- Maryland "Manly Deeds" & "With Favor Wilt Thou Compass Us As With a Shield"
- Massachusetts "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty"
- Michigan "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you"
- Minnesota "The North Star"
- Mississippi "By Valor and Arms"
- Missouri "The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law"
- Montana "Gold and Silver"
- Nebraska "Equality Before Law"
- Nevada "All For Our Country"
- New Hampshire "Live Free or Die"
- New Jersey "Liberty and Prosperity"
- New Mexico "It grows as it goes"
- New York "Ever Upward"
- North Carolina "To be rather than to seem"
- North Dakota "Liberty and Union Now & Forever, One and Inseparable"
- Ohio "With God, All Things are Possible"
- Oklahoma "Labor conquers all things"
- Oregon "She flies with her own wings"
- Pennsylvania "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence"
- Rhode Island "Hope"
- South Carolina "Prepared in mind and resources"
- South Dakota "Under God the People Rule"
- Tennessee "Agriculture & Commerce"
- Texas "Friendship"
- Utah "Industry"
- Vermont "Freedom and Unity"
- Virginia "Thus always to tyrants"
- Washington "Bye and Bye"
- West Virginia "Mountaineers are always free"
- Wisconsin "Forward"
- Wyoming "Equal Rights"
These mottos where taken from the States web sites where possible and from http://www.connectcorp.net/~paz/motto&songs.htm where not.