In God We Trust 1787." Aside from constitutional objections, President Theodore Roosevelt took issue with using the motto on coinage as he considered using God's name on money to be sacrilege. In September 2014, a proposal to add displays of "In God We Trust" on public property in Ballwin, Missouri was defeated following a plea to a meeting of aldermen by a local atheist. In God We Trust "In God We Trust" is the official motto of the United States of America, Nicaragua, and of the U.S. state of Florida. It was adopted as the United States' motto in 1956 as a replacement or
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