Lindsay McMahon

So it just felt very... Yes, yours comes up kind of often in conversations, right?

But I am very curious.

It's very possible that a lot of Americans do know their state motto.

A lot of them, as I was looking up some state mottos, a lot of them are very patriotic.

They're very tied to our history.

But then I looked up Idaho isn't really.

It's a Latin phrase, esto perpetua, which means may it endure forever.

And Arizona's is, it was Dita Deus, a Latin phrase meaning God and riches.

So not every state is like patriotic, but a lot of them are.

That makes sense.

It is happy, live free or die.

Wow.

Yeah.

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Yeah, let's start with New Hampshire.

So it is live free or die.

I looked up the origin.

This was first said by General John Stark, who was the state's most distinguished hero of the Revolutionary War.