In God We Trust. The four short words of the U.S. motto are long on irony: •In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt wanted them deleted from coinage; he felt their use was "dangerously close ...

Have you ever wondered why our State Motto proclaims that Oregon "flies with [its] own wings"? (The Latin "Alis volat propriis" has no subject and no personal possessive pronoun) In 1854 the Oregon ...