Is there a prize for the best pronunciation of that? I’d lose immediately. 
Looks like Auckland nicked your old motto. Or at least the first bit. 
As someone in a recent thread on national coats of arms noted, the motto of Norfolk Island is “Inasmuch”. How inspiring!
Apparently the Norfolk Island is supposed to be just that - inspiring, in a Biblical way. Some online sources say it comes from the Book of Matthew. Certainly is an open-ended motto, though.
Hmm. Well, “Inasmuch” appears twice in the Book of Matthew, using the King James Version:
Matthew 25:40: “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
Matthew 25:45: “Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”
As a motto, though, it still seems awfully…elliptical.
(Oh, and I’ll fourth “America - Fuck Yeah!”–that song was probably the best part of that whole movie.)
BAM! Case closed. I already find myself mentally singing this whenever I hear/see a military jet fly overhead.
Oh really?
Well just ask who won the world conker championship and also the world marbles championship.
Go on, ask!
And every year we win the World Series…
Isn’t Canada’s motto something like “Always Remember” (but in Latin)? Now there’s a good motto, I take in Canadians never lose thier car keys.
Canada’s motto is A Mari Usque Ad Mare, “From Sea to Sea” (which they obviously stole from us). The motto of Quebec is Je me souviens, French for “I remember” (or as I always like to say, it’s Canadian French for “Fergit, hell!”)
Canada: “America’s hat.”
UK: “We used to run the world. No really. No honestly. Look it up. Right, that’s it: conkers at dawn.”
No. Shan’t. Hah.
How about “All your oil wells belong to us”?
I think my favourite state motto is the Isle of Man’s, Quocunque jeceris stabit: “Whithersoever thou throwest it, there shall it stand.” It gives the image of a game of Isle of Man-tossing.
We are a stupider America than the America of 1956. Therefore we absolutely do need a stupider motto. I propose:
In Us We Trust, or
You Can’t Spell Jesus Without U.S.
“You fucked up-- You trusted us!”
“US burning your dog!”
Or maybe “I’m in ur country killing ur doodz”
Almost forgot…and The World Tiddlywinks Championship.
So go Merkins, beat that iffn ya can
Our God is Stronger than Your God: Everyone of whatever religious persuasion can delude themselves into believing their particular God is the referenced stronger God while all the other jerk-off Gods don’t count for shit.
Yes.
And since, as noted above, we have a tradition of “testing out” new mottoes on coinage before making them official, I’d like to propose the following New Motto Coin.
