The language of 25 U.S. state mottos is Latin. These mottos include:
Alabama: Audemus jura nostra defendere (We dare defend our rights)
Arizona: Ditat Deus (God enriches)
Arkansas: Regnat populus (The people rule)
California: Eureka (I have found it)
Colorado: Nil sine labore (Nothing without labor)
Connecticut: Qui transtulit sustinet (He who transplanted sustains)
Delaware: Liberty and Justice for All
Florida: In God We Trust
Georgia: Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation
Hawaii: Ua mau ke ea o ka 'āina i ka pono (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness)
Idaho: Esto perpetua (May it be perpetual)
Illinois: State Sovereignty, National Union
Indiana: The Crossroads of America
Iowa: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain
Kansas: Ad astra per aspera (To the stars through difficulties)
Kentucky: United we stand, divided we fall
Louisiana: Union, Justice, Confidence
Maine: Dirigo (I direct)
Maryland: Fatti maschii, parole femine (Manly deeds, womanly words)
Massachusetts: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty)
Michigan: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice (If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you)
Minnesota: L'Etoile du Nord (The Star of the North)
Mississippi: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Missouri: Salus populi suprema lex esto (The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law)
Montana: Oro y plata (Gold and silver)
Nebraska: Equality before the law
Nevada: All for our country
New Hampshire: Live free or die
New Jersey: Liberty and prosperity
New Mexico: Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes)
New York: Excelsior (Ever upward)
North Carolina: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)
North Dakota: Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable
Ohio: With God, all things are possible
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