State Mottoes:

Iustitia omnibus -- Justice for all

- Ad astra per aspera -- to the stars through difficulties

Cedant arma togae -- Let arms yield to the toga (peace)

- Esto perpetua -- May it last forever

Montani semper liberi -- Mountaineers are always free

- Excelsior -- Ever upward/higher

Esse quam videri -- to be rather than to seem

Labor omnia vincit -- Work conquers all

Regnat populus -- the people rule

Ditat Deus -- God enriches

Si quaeris paeninsulam amoenam circumspice -- If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you

- Virtute et armis -- by valor and arms

Dum spiro, spero -- While there's life, there's hope (While I breathe, I hope)

Animis opibusque parati -- Prepared in mind and resources

Scuto bonae voluntatis Tuae coronasti nos -- with the shield of Thy goodwill Thou has covered us

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem -- with the sword she seeks calm peace under liberty

Dirigo -- I point the way

Crescit eundo -- it grows as it goes

- Nil sine numine -- nothing without divine guidance

- Qui transtulit sustinet -- He who transplanted, sustains

Sic semper tyrannis -- thus ever to tyrant

Audemus iura nostra defendere -- we dare defend our rights

Salus populi suprema lex esto -- the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law

- Alis volat propriis -- He flies by his own wings