I don’t care what our motto is, as long as we don’t have to have one of those freaking Mission Statements.
Plus, we’d be ready for when our Snow White masters take over.
The Onion has joined in the smartass suggestions:
From “News In Brief”, 30 June 2004:
U.S. Changes Motto To ‘America… We’re Gonna
Make Ya Smile’
WASHINGTON, DC—After a focus group determined “In God We Trust” to be “boring,” the U.S. introduced a new motto Monday: “America… We’re Gonna Make Ya Smile.” “We feel the new motto projects a more playful image for the nation,” State Department spokesman Marlon Harris said. “This new slogan tells the world that America Is Fun Country.” Harris added that “E Pluribus Unum” will be replaced on all currency with “U.S. Fever—Catch It!”
How about a really inspiring motto: “Bend over and take it!”
We come in peace. (Shoot to kill.)
“Anything not nailed down belongs to us. Anything we can pry loose is not nailed down.”
How about–
"Fuck The Rest of You-- We Got Ours!!!"
or–
"Say It in English!"
or–
"Outta My Way… I’m Murkin!"
or–
"Give Me More, and Make it Bigger and Do it Faster. Because I Deserve It!"
or my personal favorite, based on an old nail clipper I once owned–
"USA BEST! (made in Korea)"
What ever the new motto is, is definitely has to have an exclamation point. Cuz we love to talk real loud-like.
How about a really short one (easy to fit on the coins, etc.):
"MORE!"
or only slightly longer, but still quite succinct and appropriate–
"More NOW!"
It’s a Constitutional Republic, Stupid! 
Personally, I wouldn’t care if our national motto was, “Would you like fries with that?”
I give the national motto the same amount of importance and weight as I do every corporate mission statement I’ve ever heard. It’s meaningless. It only exists to give people reciting it a sense of superiority or false, pumped up pride.
I mean if you have pride in your country … have it. “Proving” it to me by reciting something someone else told you to say don’t impress me one whit.
A serious answer from me. I prefer “E pluribus unum.” Because it has the weight of tradition behind it, and for the sentiment itself.
It being in Latin, though, is a bit of a problem. I had a friend visiting a few weeks ago who mentioned recent attempts to drop “In God We Trust” as the national motto. She didn’t think the national motto ought to be changed. I responded that I agreed – I didn’t think it ever should have been changed in the first place and that I liked “E pluribus unum.” She was surprised: “Doesn’t ‘E pluribus unum’ mean ‘In God We Trust?’” She was absolutely astounded to hear that “In God We Trust” was coined in the '50s and displaced ‘E pluribus unum’ at that time. BTW, I took that opportuity to educate her about the ‘under God’ section of the Pledge of Allegience. She was surprised to hear that the Pledge only dates from the late 1800s and amazed to hear that ‘under God’ was added to it in the '50s.
So, while I like the Latin, I guess I’d support the motto being a translation. I favor “Out of many, one” because that’s the one I was taught.
Thanks, Jess, for a serious reply. I agree that E pluribus unum works better for historical reasons, but the Latin definitely presents a problem. Then again, if it were officially the national motto, perhaps people who cared one way or the other would actually learn what it meant in school…
Our national motto is, by law, printed on our currency. I have no desire to “prove” to you that I have pride in my country. I just don’t want to be effectively lying every time I use cash, in that I, personally, don’t trust in God.
No thank you. Still seems like a codeword for “Sit down and shut up. Only traitors want civil liberties.” I mean, recent years have shown us the very worst side of humanity as much as the best - the sharp increase in racial violence against Muslims right after the war, a government that considers certain freedoms to be a peacetime luxury, and plenty of citizens willing to help them with it. What unity we saw seemed to be of the bad kind. I’ll take the God thing over that, and I’m agnostic.
How about, “Whatever our government is doing to you, please remember that a lot of us don’t support it.”