List of state mottos

This page lists state and national mottos for the world's independent states and their subdivisions.

• Andorra: Virtus unita fortior (Latin, "Strength united is stronger")
• Antigua and Barbuda: Each endeavouring, all achieving
• Argentina: En unión y libertad (Spanish, "In union and freedom")
• Australia: none
  • Australian Capital Territory: For the Queen, the law and the people
  • New South Wales: Orta recens quam pura nites (Latin, "Newly risen, how brightly you shine")
  • Northern Territory: none
  • Queensland: Audax at fidelis (Latin, "Bold but faithful")
  • South Australia: United for the Common Wealth
  • Tasmania: Ubertas et fidelitas (Latin, "Fertility and faithfulness")
  • Victoria: Peace and Prosperity
  • Western Australia: Cygnis Insignis (Latin, "Distinguished by its swans")
• Austria-Hungary: Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter (Latin, "Indivisible and inseperable"; the union broke up into several independent states in 1918)
• Bahamas: Forward upward onward together
• Barbados: Pride and Industry
• Belgium: L'union fait la force, Eendracht maakt macht and Einigkeit gibt Stärke (French Dutch and German, "Strength lies in unity")
  • Wallonia: Walon todi! (Walloon, "Walloon forever!")
• Belize: Sub umbra floreo (Latin, "Under the shade I flourish")
• Bolivia: La Unión es la Fuerza (Spanish, "The Union is the Strength")
• 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")
  • 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")
  • 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")
  • Yukon: None
• 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")
• Cuba: Patria y Libertad (Spanish, "Homeland and Liberty")
• Czech Republic: Pravda vítězí! (Czech, "Truth prevails!")
• Denmark: Royal motto of Queen Margrethe II: Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke (Danish: "God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength")
• Dominican Republic: Dios, Patria, Libertad (Spanish, "God, Country, Liberty")
• East Timor: Honra, pátria e povo (Portuguese, "Honour, country and people")
• Ecuador: Ecuador ha sido, es y será un país amazónico (Spanish, "Ecuador has been, is and will be an amazonic country")
• El Salvador: Dios, Unión, Libertad (Spanish, "God, Union, Liberty")
• European Union: In varietate concordia (United in diversity, Unie dans la diversité, etc. (Translated into the languages of the member states of the EU))
• Fiji: Rerevaka na Kalou ka Doka na Tui ("Fear God and honour the Queen")
• France: Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French, "Liberty, equality, brotherhood")
• Georgia: ძალა ერთობაშია! (Georgian, The Power is in Unity ")
• Germany: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (German, "Unity and justice and freedom")
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Up ewig ungedeelt (Low German, "Forever undivided")
• Greece: Ελευθερια η θανατος (transliterated as "Eleftheria o Thanatos") (Greek, "Liberty or death")
• Guyana: One people, one nation, one destiny
• Haiti: L'union fait la force (French, "Unity is strength")
• Hungary: none
• India: सत्यमेव जयते (Satyameva Jayate) (Sanskrit, "Truth alone triumphs")
• Indonesia: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Old Javanese, "Unity in diversity")
• Iran: Esteghlâl, âzâdi, jomhoorie eslâmi (persian, "Independence, freedom, the Islamic Republic")
• Ireland: none
• Israel: none
• Jamaica: Out of many, one people.
• Kenya: Harambee (Swahili, "Let's work together")
• Kiribati: Te mauri, te raoi ao te tabomoa (Kiribati, "Health, Peace and Prosperity")
• Korea, North: "One is sure to win if he believes in and depends upon the people"
• Korea, South: 널리 인간을 이롭게하라 (Korean, "Good will for all mankind")
• Laos: "Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity"
• Lebanon: Koullouna Lil Watan, Lil Oula wal'Allam (Arabic, "Us all! For our Nation, for our Emblem and Glory!")
• Lithuania: Vienybė težydi (Lithuanian, Let the unity bloom)
• Luxembourg: Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sin (Luxembourgeois, "We want to stay what we are")
• Malaysia: Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu (Malay, "Unity increases Strength")
• Mauritius: Stella clavisque Maris Indici (Latin, "Star and key of the Indian Ocean")
• Mexico: none. Traditionally: El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz (Spanish, "Respect for the rights of others is peace"). Also: Sufragio efectivo, no reelección (Spanish, "Effective suffrage, not re-election)", is at present in the signature of some official documents.
• Monaco: Prince of Monaco's Motto: Deo juvante (Latin, "With God's help")
• Morocco: GOD, THE COUNTRY, THE KING
• Namibia: Unity, liberty, justice
• Nauru: God's will first
• Nepal: जननी जन्मभूमिष्च स्वर्गादपि गरियसि (Sanskrit, "Mother and motherland are greater than heaven")
• Netherlands: Je maintiendrai (French, "I will maintain")
• Netherlands Antilles: Libertate unanimus (Latin, "Unified by freedom")
• Nigeria: "Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress"
• Norway: The King's motto: Alt for Norge (Norwegian, "All for Norway")
• Pakistan: Iman, Ittehad, Tanzeem (Urdu: "Faith, unity, discipline")
• Panama: Pro mundi beneficio (Latin, "For the benefit of the world")
• Philippines: Maka-Diyos, Makatao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa (Filipino, “For the Love of God, People, Nature and Country”)
  • Former: Isang bansa, isang diwa (Filipino: "One nation, one spirit")
• Peru: "Firme y feliz por la Unión" (Spanish "Steady and happy for the union")
• Poland: none; the words Honor i Ojczyzna (Polish: "Honour and Homeland"); or Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna (Polish, "God, Honour, Homeland") appear on most military flags and banners
• Republic of Macedonia (Former Yugoslav) :Sloboda ili smrt (Macedonian language,"Liberty or death")
• Rhodesia: Nomine digna (Latin, "May she be worthy of the name")
• 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")
• Serbia and Montenegro (Unofficial): Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava (Serbian, "Only unity saves the serbs")
• Seychelles: Finis coronat opus (Latin, "The end crowns the work")
• Sierra Leone: Unity, freedom, justice
• Singapore: Majulah Singapura (Malay, "Onward Singapore")
• South Africa:!ke e: /xarra //ke (/Xam, "Diverse people unite" or "Unity in Diversity")
  • Former: Ex Unitate Vires (Latin "From unity, strength") (under apartheid)
• Spain: Plus ultra (Latin, "Further beyond")
  • Former: Una, grande y libre (Spanish "One, great and free") (under Franco)
  • Andalusia: Andalucía para sí, para España y la humanidad (Spanish, "Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity")
  • Catalonia: Som i serem (Catalan, "We are and will be")
  • Madrid: De Madrid al cielo (Spanish, "From Madrid to heaven")
• Solomon Islands: To Lead is to serve
• Soviet Union: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Russian, "Workers of the world, unite!")
• Suriname: Justitia, pietas, fides (Latin, "Justice, piety, loyalty")
• Swaziland: Siyinquaba (Swati, "We are the fortress")
• Switzerland: Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (Latin, "One for all, all for one")
• Sweden: Royal motto: För Sverige i tiden (Swedish, "For Sweden, with the times")
• Togo: Travail, Liberté, Patrie (French: "Work, liberty, homeland")
• Turkey: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh (Turkish, "Peace at home, peace in the world")
• Tuvalu: Tuvalu mo te Atua (Tuvaluan, "Tuvalu for the Almighty")
• Ukraine: none
• 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: Ich Dien (German, "I serve" - Prince's motto), Y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn (Welsh, "The red dragon inspires action"), Cymru am byth (Welsh, "Wales for ever" - unofficial)
  • Isle of Man: Quocunque jeceris stabit (Latin, "Whithersoever you throw it, it will stand")
  • Cayman Islands: He hath founded it upon the seas
  • Falkland Islands: Desire the right
  • Gibraltar: Nulli expugnabilis hosti (Latin, "Conquered by no enemy")
• United States: E pluribus unum (Latin, "Out of many, one") and In God We Trust
  • There is a separate list of U.S. state mottos
• Uruguay: Libertad o muerte (Spanish, "Liberty or death")
• Venezuela: none
  • Amazonas: Honor y Lealtad (Spanish, "Honor and Loyalty")
  • Anzoátegui: Tumba de sus tiranos (Spanish, "Tomb of their tyrants")
  • Barinas: Dios y Federación (Spanish, "God and Federation")
  • Carabobo: Ocassus servitutis (Latin, "Decline of the servitude")
  • Cojedes: Ad Sum (Latin, "I am present")
  • 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, "Resisted with courage")
  • Portuguesa: Honor y Gloria (Spanish, Honor and Glory)
• Vietnam: Ðộc lập, tự do, hạnh phúc (Vietnamese, "Independence, liberty, and happiness")
• Western Sahara (SADR): [Arabic text unknown] (Ḥassānīya Arabic, "Liberty, Democracy, Unity")