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United States Mottos
There are three official US mottos:
- In God We Trust (“In God We Trust”)
- E Pluribus Unum (“Out of many, one”)
- Novus Ordo Seclorum (“The Order of the New Era”)
In God We Trust
In 1956, the US Congress declared the phrase ” In God We Trust ” (“In God we trust” or “In God we trust”) the official motto of the United States.
In fact, Congress only legislatively confirmed the current state of affairs, since this phrase has been minted on US coins since 1864. After being officially approved as the motto of the United States, “In God We Trus” appeared on American banknotes.
The motto In God We Trust comes from the line And this be our motto: “In God is our Trust” (“And this will be our motto: In God is our faith”). This is a line from the 1814 poem “The Defense of Fort McHenry” by Francis Scott Key, which later became the US anthem The Star-Spangled Banner.
In God We Trust is also the official state motto of Florida.
E Pluribus Unum
The phrase “E Pluribus Unum” (“Out of many, one”) was actually the motto of the United States until the adoption by the US Congress in 1956 of the phrase “In God We Trust” as such. Traditionally, its meaning is interpreted as a symbol of the unification of the American states into a single state. Interestingly, the motto E Pluribus Unum has thirteen letters, the same number as there were British colonies in North America at the time the US was formed.
The authorship of the phrase is attributed, according to various sources, to the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus and the ancient Roman orator Cicero. This motto was proposed in 1776 by Pierre Eugene Simitier, artistic consultant of the United States Coat of Arms Committee. His proposal was accepted, and since then the phrase can be seen on the Great Seal (Coat of Arms) of the United States, the seals of the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the United States Congress, the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, the United States Supreme Court and other government agencies of the United States of America.
Traditionally, since 1786, the motto “E Pluribus Unum” has been minted on American coins.
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Another state motto of the United States is the phrase “Novus Ordo Seclorum” – “Order of a new era” (or “New World Order”). This phrase comes from the poems of the ancient Roman poet Virgil Publius.
As the motto of the new American state, the phrase “Novus Ordo Seclorum” was proposed by the Secretary of the Continental Congress, Charles Thomson, in 1782 during the design of the Great Seal of the United States (US coat of arms). Thomson believed that such a motto should mark the “beginning of a new American era.”
Interestingly, the motto Novus Ordo Seclorum was first printed on one dollar bills in 1935, when the thirty-second President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was pursuing a policy known as the New Deal, and the phrase Novus Ordo Seclorum was very well suited to increase its popularity.