List of national mottos

This page lists state and national mottos for the world's independent states and if applicable, their component states. Some of the mottos in this list may be outdated. The mottos for some states lacking general international recognition and some extinct states are also listed.

A

• Albania: Free and Strong
• Algeria: من الشعب و للشعب (Arabic, "Revolution by the people and for the people")
• American Samoa: Samoa, Muamua Le Atua (Samoan, "Samoa, Let God Be First")
• Andorra: Virtus Unita Fortior (Latin, "Strength united is stronger")
• Angola: Virtus Unita Fortior (Latin, "Unity Provides Strength")
• Antigua and Barbuda: Each endeavouring, all achieving
• Argentina: En Unión y Libertad (Spanish, "In Union and Liberty")
  • Corrientes Province: Patria, Libertad, Constitución (Spanish, "Motherland, Liberty, Constitution")
  • Entre Ríos Province: Federación, Libertad, Fuerza (Spanish, "Federation, Liberty, Strength")
• Armenia: Մեկ Ազգ , Մեկ Մշակույթ (Armenian, One Nation, One Culture)
• Aruba: Un isla feliz (Papiamento, "A Happy Island")
• Australia: none
  • Australian Capital Territory: For the Queen, the law and the people
  • New South Wales: Orta recens quam pura nites (Latin, "Newly risen, how brightly you shine")
  • Northern Territory: none
  • Queensland: Audax at fidelis (Latin, "Bold but faithful")
  • South Australia: United for the common wealth
  • Tasmania: Ubertas et fidelitas (Latin, "Fertility and faithfulness")
  • Victoria: Peace and Prosperity
  • Western Australia: Cygnis Insignis (Latin, "Distinguished by its swans")
• Austria: none. Formerly AEIOU, possibly standing for Austriae est imperare orbi universo (Latin, "It is Austria's destiny to rule the world")
• Austria-Hungary: Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter (Latin, "Indivisible and inseparable")
• Azerbaijan: Odlar Yurdu (Azeri, "The Land of the Eternal Fire")

B

• Bahamas: Forward upward onward together
• Barbados: Pride and Industry
• Belarus: Жыве Беларусь! (Belarusian, Long Live Belarus!)
• Belgium: L'union fait la force, Eendracht maakt macht and Einigkeit gibt Stärke (French, Dutch and German, "Strength lies in unity")
  • Wallonia: Walon todi! (Walloon, "Walloon forever!")
• Belize: Sub umbra floreo (Latin, "Under the shade I flourish")
• Benin: Fraternité, Justice, Travail (French, "Fellowship, Justice, Labour")
• Bhutan: One Nation, One People
• Bolivia: La Unión es la Fuerza (Spanish, "The Union is the Strength")
• Brazil: Ordem e progresso (Portuguese, "Order and progress")
  • São Paulo State: Pro Brasilia fiant eximia (Latin, "For Brazil do the best")
  • São Paulo City: Non ducor duco (Latin, "I am not led, I lead")
  • Minas Gerais : Libertas quæ sera tamen (Latin, "Liberty even when it comes late")
• Brunei: Brunei darussalam (Malay, "Brunei, the abode of peace")
• Bulgaria: Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian, "Strength lies in unity" or the better translation - "Unity Provides Strength")
• Burkina Faso: Unité, Progrès, Justice (French, "Unity, Progress, Justice")
• Burundi: Unité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Unity, Work, Progress")

C

• Cambodia: Nation, Religion, King
• Cameroon: Paix, Travail, Patrie (French, "Peace, Work, Fatherland")
• Canada: A mari usque ad mare (Latin, "From sea to sea")
  • Alberta: Fortis et liber (Latin, "Strong and free")
  • British Columbia: Splendor sine occasu (Latin, "Splendour without diminishment")
  • Manitoba: Gloriosus et liber (Latin, "Glorious and free")
  • New Brunswick: Spem reduxit (Latin, "Hope was restored")
  • Newfoundland and Labrador: Quaerite primum regnum dei (Latin, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God")
  • Northwest Territories: none; One people, many voices is inscribed in several languages on the ceremonial mace of the Northwest Territories Legislature
  • Nova Scotia: Munit haec et altera vincit (Latin, "One defends and the other conquers")
  • Nunavut: Nunavut sanginivut (Inuktitut, "Nunavut our strength" or "Our land, our strength")
  • Ontario: Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet (Latin, "Loyal she began, loyal she remains")
  • Prince Edward Island: Parva sub ingenti (Latin, "The small under the protection of the great")
  • Quebec: Je me souviens (French, "I remember")
  • Saskatchewan: Multis e gentibus vires (Latin, "From many peoples, strength")
  • Yukon: none
• Cape Verde: Unity, Work, Progress
• Central African Republic: Unité, Dignité, Travail (French, "Unity, Dignity, Work")
• Chad: Unité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Unity, Work, Progress")
• Chile: Por la razón o la fuerza (Spanish, "By reason or by strength")
  • Post Tenebras Lux (Latin, "After darkness, Light") (Old one)
  • Aut concilio, aut ense (Latin, "By the reason or by the sword") (Old one)
• Colombia: Libertad y orden (Spanish, "Freedom and order")
  • Santander: Siempre Adelante (Spanish, "Always to the front")
• Comoros: Unité, Justice, Progrès (French, "Unity, justice, progress")
• Confederate States of America: Deo Vindice (Latin, "God will vindicate")
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Justice, Paix, Travail (French, "Justice, Peace, Work")
• Republic of the Congo: Unité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Unity, Work, Progress")
• Costa Rica: ¡Vivan siempre el trabajo y la paz! (Spanish, "May work and peace be always alive!")
  • (unofficial): ¡Pura vida! (Spanish, "Pure life!")
• Côte d'Ivoire: Unity, Discipline and Labor
• Croatia: Antemurale christianaitis (Latin, "Frontwall of christianity")
• Cuba: Patria o muerte venceremos (Spanish, "Fatherland or death, we will win!")
• Czech Republic: Pravda vítězí! (Czech, "Truth prevails!")

D

• Denmark: Royal motto: Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke (Danish, "God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength")
• Djibouti: Djibouti by Choice
• Dominica: Après le Bondie, C'est la Ter (French Patois, "After God is the Earth")
• Dominican Republic: Dios, Patria, Libertad (Spanish, "God, Country, Liberty")

E

• East Timor: Honra, pátria e povo (Portuguese, "Honour, country and people")
• Ecuador: Ecuador ha sido, es y será un país amazónico (Spanish, "Ecuador has been, is and will be an amazonic country")
• El Salvador: Dios, Unión, Libertad (Spanish, "God, Union, Liberty")
• Equatorial Guinea: Unidad, Paz, Justicia (Spanish, "Unity, Peace, Justice")
• Eritrea: Never Kneel Down
• European Union: In varietate concordia (United in diversity, Unie dans la diversité, etc. (Translated into the languages of the member states of the EU))

F

• Fiji: Rerevaka na Kalou ka Doka na Tui (Fijian, "Fear God and honour the Queen")
• France: Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French, "Liberty, equality, brotherhood")
  • French Polynesia: Tahiti Nui Mare'are'a
  • Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: A mare labor

G

• Gabon: Union, Travail, Justice (French, "Union, Work, Justice")
• The Gambia: Progress, Peace, Prosperity
• Georgia: ძალა ერთობაშია! (Dzala ertobashia) (Georgian, "Strength is in Unity")
• Germany: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (German, "Unity and justice and freedom")
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Up ewig ungedeelt (Low German, "Forever undivided")
• Ghana: Freedom and Justice
• Greece: Ελευθερία ή θάνατος (transliterated as "Eleutheria i thanatos") (Greek, "Liberty or death")
• Grenada: The Land, the People, the Light
• Guam: Where America's Day Begins
• Guatemala: El País de la Eterna Primavera (Spanish, "The country with the eternal spring ")
• Guinea: Travail, Justice, Solidarité (French, "Work, Justice, Solidarity")
• Guinea-Bissau: Unidade, Luta, Progresso (Portuguese, "Unity, Struggle, Progress")
• Guyana: One people, one nation, one destiny

H

• Haiti: L'union fait la force (French, "Unity is strength")
• Holy See: None
• Honduras: Libre, Soberana E Independiente(Spanish, "Free, sovereign and independent")
• Hungary: none, formerly Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae (Latin, "Kingdom of Mary, the Patron of Hungary")

I

• India: सत्यमेव जयते (Satyameva Jayate) (Sanskrit, "Truth alone triumphs")
• Indonesia: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Old Javanese, "Unity in diversity")
• Iran: Esteghlâl, Azâdi, Jomhouri-ye Islâmi (Persian, "Independence, Freedom, Islamic Republic")
• Iraq: الله أكبر (Allahu Akbar) (Arabic, "God is Great")
• Ireland: none
• Israel (unofficial): אִם תִרְצוּ, אֵין זוֹ אַגָדה ("If it is your will it won't be a dream" or "When there's a will, there's a way")
• Italy: none

J

• Jamaica: Out of many, one people
• Jordan: الأردن أوّلاً, | الله، الوطن، الملك (Allah Al-Watan Al-Malek) (Arabic, "God, the Homeland, the King")

K

• Kenya: Harambee (Swahili, "Let's work together")
• Kiribati: Te mauri, te raoi ao te tabomoa (Kiribati, "Health, Peace and Prosperity")
• Korea, North: 강성대국(强盛大國) (Korean, "Prosperous and great country")
• Korea, South: 홍익인간(弘益人間) or 널리 인간을 이롭게 하라 (Korean, "Broadly bring benefit to humanity")
• Kuwait: For Kuwait

L

• Laos: Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity
• Latvia: Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (Latvian, "For Fatherland and Freedom")
• Lebanon: Koullouna Lil Watan, Lil Oula wal'Allam (Arabic, "Us all! For our Nation, for our Emblem and Glory!")
• Lesotho: Khotso, Pula, Nala (Sotho, "Peace, Rain, Prosperity")
• Liberia: The love of liberty brought us here
• Libya: Freedom, socialism, unity
• Lithuania: Vienybė težydi (Lithuanian, Let unity bloom)
• Luxembourg: Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sin (Luxembourgeois, "We want to stay what we are")

M

• Republic of Macedonia(FYR): Слобода или смрт, Sloboda ili Smrt, (Macedonian, "Freedom or Death")
• Madagascar: Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoana (Malagasy, "Ancestral-land, Liberty, Progress")
• Malawi: Unity and Freedom
• Malaysia: Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu (Malay, "Unity increases Strength")
• Mali: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French, "One people, one goal, one faith")
• Malta: Virtute et Constantia (Latin, "By valour and firmness")
• Mauritania: شرف إخاء ع or Honneur, Fraternité, Justice (Arabic and French, "Honor, Fraternity, Justice")
• Mauritius: Stella clavisque Maris Indici (Latin, "Star and key of the Indian Ocean")
• Mexico: El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz (Spanish, "Respect of others' rights is peace")
• Micronesia (Federated States of): Peace Unity Liberty
• Monaco: Deo juvante (Latin, "With God's help")
• Mongolia: Dayar Mongol
• Morocco: God, the Country, the King

N

• Namibia: Unity, liberty, justice
• Nauru: God's will first
• Nepal: जननी जन्मभूमिष्च स्वर्गादपि गरियसि (Sanskrit, "Mother and motherland are greater than heaven")
• Netherlands: Je maintiendrai, Ik zal handhaven (French, Dutch, "I will maintain")
  • Zeeland: Luctor et Emergo, Ik worstel en kom boven (Latin, Dutch, "I struggle and emerge")
  • South Holland: Vigilate Deo Confidentes, Waakt vertrouwende op God (Latin, Dutch, "Guard trusting in God")
• Netherlands Antilles: Libertate unanimus (Latin, "Unified by freedom")
• New Zealand: None (Formerly: "Onward")
• Nicaragua: Pro Mundi Beneficio ("For the World's benefit")
• Niger: Fraternité, Travail, Progrès (French, "Fraternity, Work, Progress")
• Nigeria: Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress
• Norfolk Island: Inasmuch
• Norway: Royal motto: Alt for Norge (Norwegian, "Everything for Norway")

O

• Oman: None

P

• Pakistan: Yaqeen-mukkam , ittihad , nizam (Urdu, "Faith (self-confidence), unity, discipline")
• Palau: Rainbow's End
• Panama: Pro mundi beneficio (Latin, "For the benefit of the world")
• Papua New Guinea: Unity in Diversity
• Paraguay: Paz y justicia (Spanish, "Peace and justice")
• Philippines: Maka-Diyos, Makatao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa (Tagalog, "God, People, Nature and Country")
  • Former: Isang bansa, isang diwa (Tagalog, "One nation, one spirit")
• Peru: Firme y feliz por la Unión (Spanish, "Steady and happy for the union")
• Poland: none; unofficially, Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna (Polish, "God, Honour, Fatherland")
• Portugal: none
  • Azores: Antes morrer livres que em paz sujeitos (Portuguese, "To die free rather than to be subjugated in peace")
  • Madeira: Das ilhas, as mais belas e livres (Portuguese, "Of the islands, the most beautiful and free")
• Puerto Rico: Joannes Est Nomen Eius (Latin, "John is his name")

Q

• Qatar: None

R

• Republika Srpska: Samo Sloga Srbina Spašava (Serbian), "Only Unity Saves the Serbs"
• Roman Republic and Roman Empire: Senatus Populusque Romanus (Latin, "The Senate and the Roman people", often abbreviated SPQR)
• Romania: none; formerly Nihil Sine Deo (Latin, "Nothing without God")
• Rwanda: Unity, Work, Patriotism

S

• Saint Kitts and Nevis: Country Above Self
• Saint Lucia: The land, the people, the light
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Pax et justitia (Latin, "Peace and justice")
• Samoa: Fa'avae i le Atua Samoa (Samoan, "Samoa is founded on God")
• San Marino: Libertas (Latin, "Liberty")
• Saudi Arabia: لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله (lā ilāhā illā-llāhu; muhammadu-r-rasūlu-llāhi) (Arabic, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet")
• Senegal: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French, "One people, one goal, one faith")
• Serbia: Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava (Serbian, "Only solidarity will save the Serbs")
• Seychelles: Finis coronat opus (Latin, "The end crowns the work")
• Sierra Leone: Unity, freedom, justice
• Singapore: Majulah Singapura (Malay, "Onward Singapore")
• Solomon Islands: To lead is to servent
• South Africa: !ke e: /xarra //ke (/Xam, "Diverse people unite" or "Unity in Diversity")
  • Former: Ex Unitate Vires (Latin, "From unity, strength", from 1910-2000)
• Soviet Union: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Russian, "Workers of the world, unite!")
• Spain: Plus Ultra (Latin, "Further beyond")
  • Former: Una, grande y libre (Spanish, "One, great and free", under Franco's regime)
  • Andalusia: Andalucía por sí, para España y la Humanidad (Spanish, "Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for Mankind")
  • Asturias: Hoc signo tuetur pius, Hoc signo vincitur inimicus (Latin, "This sign defends the pious, this sign defeats the enemy")
  • Catalonia: Som i serem (Catalan, "We are and will be")
• Sudan: Al-Nasr Lana (Arabic, "Victory is Ours")
• Suriname: Justitia, pietas, fides (Latin, "Justice, piety, loyalty")
• Swaziland: Siyinquaba (Swati, "We are the fortress")
• Sweden: För Sverige i tiden (Swedish, "For Sweden, with the times") (See all royal mottos)
• Switzerland: Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (Latin, "One for all, all for one", traditional, but not official)
• Syria: Umma arabia wahida that risala khalida (Arabic, "One Arab nation. One Eternal Message")

T

• Tanzania: Uhuru na Umoja (Swahili, "Freedom and Unity")
• Thailand: ไทยนี้รักสงบ แต่ถึงรบไม่ขลาด
• Togo: Travail, Liberté, Patrie (French, "Work, liberty, homeland")
• Tonga: Ko e ʻOtua mo Tonga ko hoku tofiʻa (Tongan, "God and Tonga are my Inheritance")
• Trinidad and Tobago: Together we aspire, together we achieve
• Tunisia: Order, Freedom,and Justice
• Turkey: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh (Turkish, "Peace at home, peace in the world")
• Tuvalu: Tuvalu mo te Atua (Tuvaluan, "Tuvalu for the Almighty")

U

• Uganda: For God and My Country
• Ukraine: none; unofficially: Воля, злагода, добро (Ukrainian, "Freedom, Concord, Goodness")
• United Kingdom: Dieu et mon droit (French, "God and my right", Royal motto)
  • Scotland: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin, "No one provokes me with impunity")
  • Wales: Ich Diene (German, "I serve", Prince's motto), Y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn (Welsh, "The red dragon inspires action"), Cymru am byth (Welsh, "Wales for ever", unofficial)
  • Northern Ireland: Dieu et mon droit (French, "God and my right", Royal motto)
  • Isle of Man: Quocunque jeceris stabit (Latin, "Whithersoever you throw it, it will stand")
  • Anguilla: Each Endeavouring, All Achieving
  • Bermuda: Quo Fata Ferunt (Latin, "Whither the Fates carry [us]")
  • British Indian Ocean Territory: In tutela nostra Limuria (Latin, "Limuria is in our charge")
  • British Virgin Islands: Vigilate (Latin, "Be Watchful")
  • Cayman Islands: He hath founded it upon the seas
  • Falkland Islands: Desire the right
  • Gibraltar: Nulli expugnabilis hosti (Latin, "Conquerable by no enemy")
  • Montserrat: Each Endeavouring, All Achieving
  • Saint Helena: Loyal and Unshakeable
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Leo Terram Propriam Protegat (Latin, "Let the lion protect its own land")
  • Tristan da Cunha: Our faith is our strength
  • Turks and Caicos Islands: Each Endeavouring, All Achieving
• United States: In God We Trust (official) and E pluribus unum (Latin, "Out of many, one") (de-facto)
  • There is a separate list of U.S. state mottos
• Uruguay: Libertad o Muerte (Spanish, "Liberty or Death")

V

• Vanuatu: Let us stand firm in God
• Venezuela: none
  • Amazonas: Honor y Lealtad (Spanish,"Honor and Loyalty")
  • Anzoátegui: Tumba de sus tiranos (Spanish, "Tomb of its tyrants")
  • Barinas: Dios y Federación (Spanish, "God and Federation")
  • Carabobo: Ocassus servitutis (Latin, "Decline of the servitude"; but also: "End of slavery")
  • Cojedes: Ad Sum (Latin, "I am here")
  • Delta Amacuro: La Paz en la Federación (Spanish, "The Peace in the Federation")
  • Falcón: Dios y Federación (Spanish, "God and Federation")
  • Guárico: Si amas la libertad, ven a mis pampas (Spanish, "If you love liberty, come to my plains")
  • Monagas: Resistió con valor (Spanish, "It resisted with courage")
  • Portuguesa: Honor y Gloria (Spanish, "Honor and Glory")
  • Vargas: Igualdad, Libertad, Propiedad y Seguridad (Spanish, "Equality, Liberty, Property -possibly Propriety- and Security")
• Vietnam: Ðộc lập, tự do, hạnh phúc (Vietnamese, "Independence, liberty and happiness")
• Virgin Islands (US): United in Pride and Hope

W

• Western Sahara (SADR): حرية ديمقراطية وحدة (Ḥassānīya Arabic, "Liberty, Democracy, Unity")

Y

• Yemen: None

Z

• Zambia: One Zambia, One Nation
• Zimbabwe: Unity, Freedom, Work