Above The Chaos, National Mottos, and the Lionsberg Motto
The there is a page on Wikipedia entitled List of National Mottos.
It is a fascinating glimpse into what in our inspirational and founding moments we, the Citizens of Earth, have said we value or aspire to.
As a provisional Lionsberg Motto, we have selected:
One Citizenship, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.
This captures the highest values and aspirations, and speaks to the diverse-yet-indivisible unity under God that is the basis of every other value.
Among other sovereignties, the most common themes are:
Current sovereign countries
- Afghanistan: There is no god but God; Muhammad is the messenger of God
- Albania: You, Albania, give me honour, give me the name Albanian
- Algeria: By the people and for the people
- Andorra: Strength united is stronger
- Angola: Virtue is stronger when united
- Antigua and Barbuda: Each endeavouring, all achieving
- Argentina: In Union and Liberty
- Armenia: One Nation, One Culture
- Australia: No official motto. Formerly Advance Australia.
- Austria: No official motto.
- Azerbaijan: No official motto
- Bahamas: Forward, Upward, Onward Together
- Bahrain: No official motto.
- Bangladesh: No official motto.
- Barbados: Pride and Industry
- Belarus: No official motto.
- Belgium: Unity makes strength
- Belize: Under the shade I flourish
- Benin: Fellowship, Justice, Labour
- Bhutan: No official motto.
- Bolivia: Unity makes strength
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: No official motto.
- Botswana: Rain
- Brazil: Order and progress
- Brunei: Always in service with God's guidance
- Bulgaria: Unity Makes Strength
- Burkina Faso: Unity, Progress, Justice
- Burundi: Unity, Work, Progress
- Cambodia: Nation, Religion, King
- Cameroon: Peace, Work, Fatherland
- Canada: From sea to sea
- Cape Verde: Unity, Work, Progress
- Central African Republic: Unity, Dignity, Work
- Chad: Unity, Work, Progress
- Chile: Through Reason Or By Force
- People's Republic of China: No official motto.
- Republic of China (Taiwan): No official motto.
- Colombia: Freedom and order
- Comoros: Unity, Solidarity, Development
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Justice, Peace, Work
- Republic of the Congo: Unity, Work, Progress
- Costa Rica: No official motto; de facto motto: Always live work and peace!
- Ivory Coast: Unity, Discipline, Labor
- Croatia: No official motto. Unofficial motto: God and Croats
- Cuba: Fatherland or death
- Cyprus: No official motto
- Czech Republic: Truth prevails
- Denmark: No official motto.
- Djibouti: Unity, Equality, Peace
- Dominica: After God, the Earth
- Dominican Republic: God, Fatherland, Liberty
- East Timor: Unity, Action, and Progress
- Ecuador: God, homeland, and freedom
- Egypt: No official motto.
- El Salvador: God, Union, Liberty
- Equatorial Guinea: Unity, Peace, Justice
- Eritrea: Victory to the Masses!
- Estonia: No official motto.
- Eswatini: We are the fortress
- Ethiopia: Currently no official motto. Formerly: Ethiopia holds up her hands unto God
- Fiji: Fear God and honour the King
- Finland: No official motto.
- France: Liberty, equality, fraternity
- Gabon: Union, Work, Justice
- Gambia: Progress, Peace, Prosperity.
- Georgia (country): Strength is in Unity!
- Germany: No official motto, de facto: Unity and justice and freedom
- Ghana: Freedom and Justice.
- Greece: Freedom or Death
- Grenada: Ever Conscious of God We Aspire, Build and Advance as One People.
- Guatemala: Grow Free and Fertile
- Guinea: Work, Justice, Solidarity
- Guinea-Bissau: Unity, Struggle, Progress
- Guyana: One People, One Nation, One Destiny.
- Haiti: Liberty, equality, fraternity
- Honduras: Free, sovereign and independent
- Hungary: Currently no official motto. Formerly _With the help of God for Homeland and Freedom
- Iceland: No official motto.
- India: Truth alone triumphs
- Indonesia: Unity in diversity
- Iran: God is the Greatest
- Iraq: God is the Greatest
- Ireland: No official motto.
- Israel: No official motto. Unofficial: If you will it, it is no dream
- Italy: No official motto.
- Jamaica: _Out of many, One People
- Japan: No official motto.
- Jordan: God, Homeland, King
- Kazakhstan: Freedom, Unity, Progress!
- Kenya: All pull together
- Kiribati: Health, Peace and Prosperity
- North Korea: No official motto.
- South Korea: No official motto. De facto motto: To broadly benefit the human world
- Kosovo: No official motto.
- Kuwait: God, The Nation, The Emir
- Kyrgyzstan: No official motto.
- Laos: Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity
- Lebanon: _We are all for the Country, the Sublime and the Flag
- Lesotho: Peace, Rain, Prosperity
- Liberia: _The love of liberty brought us here
- Libya: No official motto.
- Liechtenstein: For God, Prince and Fatherland
- Lithuania: No official motto, Freedom, Unity, Prosperity
- Luxembourg: We wish to remain what we are
- Madagascar: Love, Ancestral-land, Progress
- Malawi: Unity and Freedom.
- Malaysia: Unity is strength
- Maldives: State of the Mahal Dibiyat
- Mali: One people, one goal, one faith
- Malta: Strength and consistency
- Marshall Islands: Accomplishment/Achievement through Joint Effort
- Mauritania: Honor, Fraternity, Justice
- Mauritius: Star and key of the Indian Ocean
- Mexico: No official motto
- Federated States of Micronesia: Peace, Unity, Liberty.
- Moldova: No official motto.
- Monaco: With God's help
- Mongolia: No official motto.
- Montenegro: No official motto.
- Morocco: God, the Country, the King
- Mozambique: No official motto.
- Myanmar: Currently no official motto. Formerly: Happiness through harmony
- Namibia: Unity, liberty, justice
- Nauru: God's will first
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**![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Nepal.svg/16px-Flag_of_Nepal.svg.png)[Nepal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal "Nepal")**: _Mother and motherland are greater than heaven_
- Netherlands: I will maintain
- New Zealand: No official motto, formerly _Onward
- Nicaragua: In God We Trust
- Niger: Fraternity, Work, Progress
- Nigeria: Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress.
- Northern Cyprus: No official motto.
- North Macedonia: No official motto.
- Norway: No official motto.
- Oman: No official national motto.
- Pakistan: Faith, Unity, Discipline
- Palau: No official national motto.
- Palestine: No official motto, Unofficial: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free
- Panama: For the benefit of the world
- Papua New Guinea: Unity in Diversity
- Paraguay: Peace and justice
- Peru: Steady and happy for the union _
- Philippines: For God, for the people, for nature and for the country
- Poland: No official motto.
- Portugal: This is my blissful beloved homeland
- Qatar: No official motto.
- Romania: No official motto. Formerly Nothing without God
- Russia: No official motto.
- Rwanda: Unity, Work, Patriotism
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: Liberty, Democracy, Unity
- Saint Kitts and Nevis: Country Above Self
- Saint Lucia: The land, the people, the light
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Peace and justice
- San Marino: Liberty
- São Tomé and Príncipe: Unity, Discipline, Work
- Saudi Arabia: _There is no God other than God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God
- Senegal: One people, one goal, one faith
- Serbia: No official motto. Unofficial: _Only Unity Saves the Serbs
- Seychelles: The end crowns the work
- Sierra Leone: Unity, freedom, justice
- Singapore: Onward Singapore
- Slovakia: Currently no official motto. Formerly (1939–1945) Faithful to Ourselves, Together Ahead!
- Slovenia: No official motto.
- Solomon Islands: To lead is to serve
- Somalia: No official motto.
- South Africa: Diverse people unite or Unity in Diversity
- South Sudan: Justice, Liberty, Prosperity
- Spain: Further beyond
- Sri Lanka: No official motto.
- Sudan: Victory is Ours
- Suriname: Justice, piety, loyalty
- Sweden: No official national motto.
- Switzerland: No official motto. Unofficial: One for all, all for one
- Syria: Unity, Freedom, Socialism
- Tajikistan: Independence, Freedom, Homeland!
- Tanzania: Freedom and Unity
- Thailand: No official motto. Unofficial: Nation, Religion, King
- Togo: Work, liberty, homeland
- Tonga: God and Tonga are my Inheritance
- Trinidad and Tobago: Together we aspire, together we achieve.
- Tunisia: Freedom, Order, Justice
- Turkey: No official motto. Motto of the Parliament of Turkey: _Sovereignty unconditionally belongs to the People
- Turkmenistan: Turkmenistan is the motherland of Neutrality
- Tuvalu: Tuvalu for the Almighty
- Uganda: For God and My Country
- Ukraine: No official motto.
- United Arab Emirates: God, Nation, President
- United Kingdom: No official motto. Sovereign's motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right)
- United States: In God We Trust (official), E Pluribus Unum (Latin: Out of many, one), (de facto).
- Uruguay: Liberty or Death
- Uzbekistan: The Strength is in The Justice!
- Vanuatu: In God we stand
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**![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_the_Vatican_City.svg/16px-Flag_of_the_Vatican_City.svg.png)[Vatican City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City "Vatican City")**: No official motto.
- Venezuela: Currently no official motto. Historical: God and Federation
- Vietnam: Independence, Liberty, Happiness
- Yemen: God, Homeland, Revolution, Unity
- Zambia: One Zambia, One Nation
- Zimbabwe: Unity, Freedom, Work