Religion in the United States Calvinist heritage. The modern official 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. According to a 2002 survey by the Pew Research Center, nearly 6 in 10 Americans said that religion plays an important role in their lives, compared to 33% in Great Britain, 27% in Italy, 21% in Germany, 12% in Japan, and 11% in France. The survey report stated that the results showed America having a greater similarity to developing nations (where higher
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