Lindsay McMahon

And what he said was live free or die.

Death is not the worst of evils.

Which gives it even more context here, right?

When during the revolution, a lot of people were willing to lay down their lives.

They're like, death is not the worst thing that could happen.

To not be free is worse.

It's so interesting how different states have these sort of stereotypes.

And then a lot of people, they'll have these commonalities, almost like its own country, right?

We have the United States, but each state is quite different, right?

And often we'll have these different regional dialects, different cultures.

So it's interesting what a melting pot the United States is.

And then all of the states might be very different.

Yeah, there's checks and balances with states' rights and states having a say over the federal government.

Okay, so Virginia, we're going to talk about next.

A lot of them are Latin phrases.

This one is six semper tyrannis, which means thus always to tyrants.

So I looked at the origin.

It was recommended as the state motto by George Mason in the Virginia Convention in 1776.

as a revolutionary motto, of course, signifying opposition to tyranny.

So at that time in America, right, this is the height of the American Revolution.