Mottos Quotes

Slightly adapted, this passage became the slogan of the U. S. Postal Service:

Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review Magazine as its motto.

Dunne put these words in the mouth of his famous character, Mr. Dooley. The part of the quotation, “comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable” without the accent, became the motto for many journalists. This is the earliest use we have found, but it ironically was not very complimentary to newspapers.

See {234968} for an earlier, similar view.

The main motto of the Jesuits however was: “For the greater glory of God”

Most people think that this has been a U. S. motto since the founding of the country. But it was not until 1864 that it appeared anywhere on the American scene. The original motto was “E Pluribus Unum”. In 1956, in a rash of anti-Communist fever, Congress adopted this slogan as the official motto and ordered that it be printed on all paper currency which it has been since 1957. God’s entry in the motto or the currency was never implemented by the founding fathers or in early America. It is a relatively modern act put on the currency when religion was part of the relatively modern culture wars.

China, which had been one of the strongest and most modern nations in the world for 1000 years had lapsed into decay and though a huge nation, rich in resources, with more people than any other had been eclipsed by Japan, America and Europe. Cixi was determined to remedy that, and to a great extent started China on the road to modernization which would take over 100 years more.

Also the motto on the coat-of-arms of Montgomery County, Maryland