List of state mottos

• 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 bright thou shinest")
  • Northern Territory: none
  • Queensland: Audax et fidelis (Latin, "Bold and faithful")
  • South Australia: none
  • Tasmania: Ubertas et fidelitas (Latin, "Fertility and faithfulness")
  • Victoria: Peace and prosperity
  • Western Australia: none
• Austria-Hungary: Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter
• Bahamas: Forward upward onward together
• Barbados: Pride and Industry
• Belgium: L'union fait la force and Eendracht maakt macht (French and Dutch, "Unity gives 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")
• 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")
• East Timor: Honra, pàtria e povo (Portuguese, "Honour, country and people")
• European Union: United in diversity Unie dans la diversité, etc.
• 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")
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Up ewig ungedeelt (Low German, "Forever undivided")
• 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")

• Kenya: Harambee (Swahili, "Let's work together")
• Kiribati: Te mauri, te raoi ao te tabomoa (Kiribati, "Health, Peace and Prosperity")
• Laos: "Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity"
• Luxembourg: Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sin (Luxembourgeois, "We want to stay what we are")
• Macedonia:Sloboda ili smrt(Macedonian,"Liberty or death")
• Malaysia: Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu (Malay, "Unity increases 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")
• Panama: Pro mundi beneficio (Latin, "For the benefit of the world")
• Philippines: Maka-Diyos, Maka-Tao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa (Filipino, “For Love of God, People, Nature and Country”)
• 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
• 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: ''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")
• 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: Пролетарии всех стран, объединяйтесь! (Russian, "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")
  • England: Honi soit qui mal y pense (French, "Shamed be he who thinks ill of it")
  • 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
• 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: Ðộc lập, tự do, hạnh phúc (Vietnamese, "Independence, liberty, and happiness")

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