Read the following alphabetical list of the 50 states to discover each state's motto.

Alabama Audemus jura nostra defendere (We dare defend our rights)

Alaska North to the Future

Arizona Ditat Deus (God enriches)

Arkansas Regnat populus (The people rule)

California Eureka (I have found it)

Colorado Nil sine Numine (Nothing without Providence)

Connecticut Qui transtulit sustinet (He who transplanted still sustains)

Delaware Liberty and independence

Florida In God we trust (1868)

Georgia Wisdom, justice, and moderation

Hawaii Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness)

Idaho Esto perpetua (It is forever)

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, and confidence

Maine Dirigo (I lead)

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 around you)

Minnesota L'Étoile du Nord (The North Star)

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

Oklahoma Labor omnia vincit (Labor conquers all things)

Oregon Alis volat Propriis (She flies with her own wings) (1987)

Pennsylvania Virtue, liberty, and independence

Rhode Island Hope

South Carolina Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind and resources) and Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)

South Dakota Under God the people rule

Tennessee Agriculture and Commerce (1987)

Texas Friendship

Utah Industry

Vermont Vermont, Freedom and Unity

Virginia Sic semper tyrannis (Thus always to tyrants)

Washington Al-Ki (Indian word meaning “by and by”)

West Virginia Montani semper liberi (Mountaineers are always free)

Wisconsin Forward