United States national motto United States national motto The modern motto of the United States of America, as established in a 1956 law signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is "In God We Trust". The phrase first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864. The 1956 law was the first establishment of an official motto for the country, although E Pluribus Unum ("from many, one") was adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782 as the motto for the Seal of the United States and has been used on coins and paper money since 1795. A phrase similar to "In God We Trust" appears in
Motto of the European Union with the opening of "http://devise-europe.org", the "une devise pour l'Europe" contest's official website managed by France Telecom. The website featured pedagogic files, created by the operation's general Office located at the Caen Memorial, and teachers oriented pitches and registration forms available in the eleven official European languages (plus Catalan). The English-language version, called "A motto for Europe", had its website hosted at "https://web.archive.org/web/20170524113008/http://motto-europe.org/". The contest's slogan was "The only prize will be to write a page of Europe's History" ("La seule récompense sera d’avoir écrit une page d’histoire de l'Europe"). In September 1999, a contest was held at the start