Lindsay McMahon

So they're very and then a lot of them just haven't changed, right?

So this is about leaving British rule.

But it's interesting, you know, we've sort of always kept this outlook, this mindset.

Definitely, right.

That's highlighted in the play in the Broadway play Hamilton, right, that there were a lot of people that did not want to be fighting against British rule.

And when

of course, it was dangerous.

You're willing to put your life on the line if you're going to fight sometimes.

And a lot of people wouldn't want to do that.

What else, Aubrey?

So this is interesting because a lot of the states on the East Coast, I would expect to have these more, you know, patriotic mottos.

But Alabama's is we dare defend our rights, also in Latin, but that's the translation.

And this was interesting, the origin as well.

This was proposed as the motto by Marie Bankhead Owen while she was developing the Alabama Code of Arms in 1923.

Okay.

So a lot of mottos aren't as old that a state would adopt a motto or maybe change it at some point.

But it was inspired by a poem, an 18th century poem by Sir William Jones.

And in the poem, one of the stanzas is men who their duties know, but know their rights and knowing dare maintain.

So I love this.

I'm like, I want to go and read that poem.