Dude, where's my State Motto?

"Thus always to tyrants" has that cool Rebel Alliance v. The Empire feel to it, but Virginia's state motto has nothing on some others. Maine has the LA pickup line: "I direct." Oregon has a Michael Bolton lyric: "She flies with her own wings."

Emily Wick does them all in a wood-block naive style that gold-leafed letters in granite just can't match. Here's The Fifty, via neatorama.