The fifty-one mottoes in this collection – including the fifty states and the District of Columbia – highlight the states’ individuality. Twenty-five of the states have Latin mottoes, twenty-one are in English, and the others’ mottoes are in Hawaiian, French, Spanish, Ancient Greek and Chinook. As the College and University Latin mottoes published on CTCWeb were able to indicate to students what they sought to achieve, the state mottoes can point their citizens to their own goals. These mottoes highlight democracy, freedom and justice, traits that do not divide the states but rather unite them.

• Alabama - Kentucky
• Louisiana - Oklahoma
• Oregon - Wyoming