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State Mottos
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A list of US state slogans is available, as well
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New York Motto
"Excelsior"
(Ever Upward)
Adopted in 1778.
Language: Latin
Focus: Progress and Prosperity
New York's state motto was adopted as an element of the arms of the state and the state seal. It was adopted in 1778.
New York uses one Latin word, Excelsior, which means Higher, as its motto. This term was first used with reference to the physical, but it has now come to include spiritual, mental, and social progress.
Laws of New York, State Laws, Article 6, Section 70. The motto is defined in a section
of law describing the arms of the state and the state flag.
STATE LAWS.
ARTICLE 6. - (70 - 86) ARMS AND GREAT SEAL OF STATE.
SECTION 70. Description of the arms of the state and the state flag.
§ 70. Description of the arms of the state and the state flag.
The device of arms of this state, as adopted March sixteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, is
hereby declared to be correctly described as follows:
Charge. Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or, behind a range of three
mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a ship and sloop under sail, passing and about to meet on
a river, bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper.
Crest. On a wreath azure and or, an American eagle proper, rising to the dexter from a two-thirds of a
globe terrestrial, showing the north Atlantic ocean with outlines of its shores.
Supporters. On a quasi compartment formed by the extension of the scroll.
Dexter. The figure of Liberty proper, her hair disheveled and decorated with pearls, vested azure,
sandaled gules, about the waist a cincture or, fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the
shoulders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand a staff ensigned with a Phrygian cap or, the sinister
arm embowed, the hand supporting the shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown by her sinister
foot dejected.
Sinister. The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and decorated with pearls, vested or, about
the waist a cincture azure, fringed gules, sandaled and mantled as Liberty, bound about the eyes with a
fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight sword hilted or, erect, resting on the sinister chief point
of the shield, the sinister arm embowed, holding before her her scales proper.
Motto. On a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, Excelsior.
State flag. The state flag is hereby declared to be blue, charged with the arms of the state in the
colors as described in the blazon of this section.
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Mottos of the States
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State motto is a word, phrase, or sentence inscribed on or
attached to a coin, building, or other object. A state motto expresses an important idea for a group
of people within the state.
motto (ˈmä-(ˌ)tō)
n.
Etymology:
Italian, from Late Latin muttum grunt, from Latin muttire to mutter
Date: 15th century
1: a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative
of its character or use
2: a short expression of a guiding principle |
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