🎀 State Mottos

Question 1

Maine

Answer 1

• Dirigo (“I direct.”)

Question 2

Maryland

Answer 2

• crescite et multiplicamini (“increase and multiply”)

Question 3

Massachusettes

Answer 3

• Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (“With the sword he seeks peace under liberty”)

Question 4

Michigan

Answer 4

• Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice (“If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around”)

Question 5

Minnesota

Answer 5

• civilitas successit barbarum (“Civilization succeeds barbarism”)

Question 6

Mississippi

Answer 6

• Virtute et armis (“By courage and arms”)

Question 7

Missouri

Answer 7

• Salus populi suprema lex esto. (“Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.”)

Question 8

New Mexico

Answer 8

• Crescit eundo (“It grows as it goes”)

Question 9

New York

Answer 9

• Excelsior! (“Higher!”)

Question 10

North Carolina

Answer 10

• Esse quam videri (“To be rather than to seem”)