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Faker:

--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 17 Jul 2007, 08:59 ---
--- Quote ---(Does anyone outside New Hampshire get the referrence?)
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Nope. I just thought it was a catch title.

That's a pretty hard core state motto though.

makes me wonder what some of the others are.

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Ask and you shall be answered... Pulled the following from wikipedia, but would be fairly confident about it accuracy, even if it does seem to indicate that New Hampshire is the most bad-ass of all states. Maybe whoever is working on that Bad Dudes script should have them originating from there!


Alabama: Audemus jura nostra defendere (Latin, "We dare to defend our rights")

Alaska: North to the future 

Arizona: Ditat Deus (Latin, "God enriches")

Arkansas: Regnat populus (Latin, "The people rule")

California: Eureka (Greek, "I have found it")

Colorado: Nil sine numine (Latin, "Nothing without Providence" or "Nothing without the Deity")

Connecticut: Qui transtulit sustinet (Latin, "He who transplanted sustains")

Delaware: Liberty and justice
 
Florida: In God we trust
 
Georgia: Wisdom, justice, and moderation 

Hawaii: Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono (Hawaiian, "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness")

Idaho: Esto perpetua (Latin, "Let 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 (Latin, "To the stars through adversity")
 
Kentucky: English United we stand, divided we fall Latin: Deo gratiam habeamus (Latin, "With gratitude to God"; adopted in 2002)

Louisiana: Union, justice, et confidence (French, "Union, justice, and confidence")

Maine: Dirigo (Latin, "I direct")

Maryland: Fatti maschi, parole femmine (Italian, "Manly deeds, womanly words")

Massachusetts: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (Latin, "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty")

Michigan: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice / Tuebor (Latin, "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you") / (Latin, "I will be defended")

Minnesota: L'étoile du Nord (Official state motto) / Quae sursum volo videre (Territorial motto never repealed) (French, "The star of the North") / (Latin, "I long to see what is beyond")

Mississippi: Virtute et armis (Latin, "By valor and arms")

Missouri: Salus populi suprema lex esto (Latin, "The Welfare of the People is the Highest Law")

Montana: Oro y plata (Spanish, "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 (Latin, "It grows as it goes")

New York: Excelsior (Latin, "Ever Upward!")

North Carolina: Esse quam videri (Latin, "To be rather than to seem")

North Dakota: Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable / Strength from the soil Daniel Webster quote used on the Great Seal / motto used on the Coat of Arms

Ohio: With God, all things are possible 

Oklahoma: Labor omnia vincit (Latin, "Labor conquers all things")

Oregon: Alis volat propriis, and The Union (Latin, "She flies with her own wings")

Pennsylvania: Virtue, liberty, and independence 

Rhode Island: Hope 

South Carolina: Dum spiro spero (Latin, "While I breathe, I hope")

South Dakota: Under God the people rule 

Tennessee: Agriculture and commerce 

Texas: Friendship 

Utah: Industry 

Vermont: Freedom and Unity 

Virginia: Sic semper tyrannis (Latin, "Thus always to tyrants")
 
Washington: Al-ki (unofficial) (Chinook Jargon, "By and by")

West Virginia: Montani semper liberi (Latin, "Mountaineers are always free")

Wisconsin: Forward 

Wyoming: Equal rights

0bsessions:
Wow...98% of all state mottoes are exceedingly lame. That's about the first time I've ever been proud to have grown up in New Hampshire.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: Faker on 18 Jul 2007, 03:49 ---Alaska: North to the future 

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awesome

Orbert:
Some standup comedian a while back made the observation that license plates are usually embossed with the state motto and hammered out by prison inmates, in which case the motto "Live Free or Die" takes on an interesting meaning.

Mnementh:
I think Massachussets has a more hardcore motto than NH.  NH is all "we'd rather die than not be free" whereas massachusetts is saying "if you take away our liberty, we'll fucking kill you."

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