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Iowa Symbols, State Motto
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"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain"
Adopted in 1847.
Language: English
Focus: Rights and Liberty and Freedom
This motto, which expressed the sentiment of Iowans as they entered the Union in 1846, was placed on the state seal by the first General Assembly in 1847.
Iowa Code, 1A.1
1A.1 Seal--device--motto.
The secretary of state be, and is, hereby authorized to procure a seal which shall be the great seal of the state of Iowa, two inches in diameter, upon which shall be engraved the following device, surrounded by the words, "The Great Seal of the State of Iowa"--a sheaf and field of standing wheat, with a sickle and other farming utensils, on the left side near the bottom; a lead furnace and pile of pig lead on the right side; the citizen soldier, with a plow in his rear, supporting the American flag and liberty cap with his right hand, and his gun with his left, in the center and near the bottom; the Mississippi river in the rear of the whole, with the steamer Iowa under way; an eagle near the upper edge, holding in his beak a scroll, with the following inscription upon it: Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain.
Section History: Early form
[1GA, ch 112; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 1A.1]
Footnotes
Editor's Note: The Act of the First General Assembly of the State of Iowa creating the Great Seal, approved February 25, 1847, is hereby reproduced in the descriptive part.
There seem to be no further enactments, repeals or amendments and no codification of this law appears in the various Codes. See Annals of Iowa, Volume XI, pages 561, 576. Constitutional provision for a great seal is contained in Article IV, section 20 but no description is there provided.
These a states with mottos that focus on liberty.
- Delaware: "Liberty and Independence"
- Iowa: "Our Liberties We Prize, and Our Rights We Will Maintain"
- Massachusetts: "Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem"
(By the Sword We Seek Peace, but Peace Only under Liberty)
- New Jersey: "Liberty and Prosperity"
- North Dakota: "Liberty and Union Now and Forever; One and Inseparable"
- Pennsylvania: "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence"
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