What should a new U.S. motto be? (instead of "In God We Trust")

It’s not quite as blameless as it sounds. It’s taken from Psalm 72, Verse 8: “He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth.” Subtext: “So all you Indigenous peoples can just shut the heck up! Also, Quebec.”

“If we can send a legion to it, it’s our backyard” was, I believe, Rome’s motto

But you could use latifundium, perhaps: Non in latifundium meum, which in the UK might also be translated as “Geroff moi land!”

Exi e cohorte? Exi ex area?

Shakespeare: “To be or not to be”
Sinatra: “Doo-be Doo-be-doo”

It will be featured on the money, so

“This we’ll defend.”

This should be a poll.
E Pluribus Unum

“para bellum”

That’s what I was going to say.

Resistance is futile
Soylent green is people

And we’re actually starting to say “From Sea to Sea to Sea” a fair bit these days (and maybe the last 10 years or so). Do any of my fellow Canucks know if the third “Sea” is official now?

Frank Sinatra: “One good take!”

I found these weird sunglasses and now all my money looks like this.

America … Fuck Yeah!

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But overall it’s probably the most appropriate motto of the whole thread, so worth mentioning twice. :grin:

I don’t mind the old motto. But if updating:

  • There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
  • Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
  • You might be king of half the world, you’ll not own me as well
  • He wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel
  • ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it’s cold as hell
  • I want to be the girl with the most cake
  • And I said next time, Next time We’ll get it right
  • Freedom’s just another word, for nothing left to lose
  • Liberty, she pirouette, when I think that I am free
  • I was flying back from Lubbock and saw Jesus on the plane
  • Beautiful is the dream that makes you mine
  • Have you come here to play Jesus, to the lepers in you head?
  • Take a sad song and make it better
  • We sick and tired of your ism-schism game
  • Some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
  • And found my cleanest dirty shirt
  • Does anybody really know what time it is?
  • Don’t go changing to try to please me
  • Just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home
  • Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages
  • Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
    Pickpockets, peddlers and even panhandlers
  • so build me up, Buttercup
  • Sippin’ on gin and juice (laid back), with my mind on my money and my money on my mind)
  • I’m not big on social graces, think I’ll slip on down to the oasis
  • And I loved you when our love was blessed, and I love you now there’s nothing left but sorrow and a sense of overtime
  • You with the jaundiced eyes, drunk on your own reflection propped up with desks and flags
  • was feeling as nearly faded as my jeans
  • I said “do-you-speaka-ma-language?”
  • And feeling good was good enough for me
  • but if your hopes should pass away then simply pretend that you can build them again
  • America when will you be angelic?
    When will you take off your clothes?

Okay, so maybe these not-so-serious mottos don’t translate into Latin so well. But one point for every source you can name… :slight_smile:

He who dies with the most toys wins.

Pedit Semper Ridiculam (Farts Will Always Be Funny).

This says “He always farts the silly woman.” I think you want pedita semper ridicula.

Now write it a thousand times on the side of the White House.