United States national motto the final stanza of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key (and later adopted as the U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931 by U.S. President Herbert Hoover), the song contains an early reference to a variation of the phrase: "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'" The change from "E Pluribus Unum" to "In God We Trust" was generally considered uncontroversial at the time, given the rising influence of organized religion and pressures of the Cold War era in the 1950s. The 1956 law was one of several legislative actions Congress took to
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