Favorite State Motto?

Zurp · #1 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 03:50 PM

What's your favorite state motto?

Personally, I think "Live free or die" is pretty good. I imagine Homer Simpson saying it while shaking his fist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_mottos

MolGenBuckeye · #2 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 03:56 PM

Not sure I have a favorite, but the worst has to be Maryland - Fatti maschi, parole femmine (Italian, "Manly deeds, womanly words")

OSUsushichic · #3 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 04:00 PM

Dirigo (Maine) - sounds like a mangy dog!

BUCKYLE · #4 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 04:06 PM

Massachusetts - "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty"

FCollinsBuckeye · #5 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 04:06 PM

I like Colorado's best: "Thanks for visiting! Now get the [censored] out!!"

I didn't listen.

ImFrigginFly · #6 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 04:09 PM

Florida's is real original

In God We Trust...

BayBuck · #7 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 04:14 PM

There are some really weird ones:

Michigan: "If you seek a pleasant penisula, look about you"

Connecticut: "He who transplanted sustains"

Kansas: "To the stars through adversity"

North Carolina: "To be rather than to seem" (inspired by Wallace Stevens? "Let be be the finale of seem")

Montana: "Gold and Silver" (Is Yukon Cornelius from Montana?)