In God We Trust

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"In God We Trust" (also rendered as "In God we trust") is the United States national motto, as well as the official motto of the U.S. state of Florida, and the nation of Nicaragua (Spanish: En Dios confiamos). It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, via a joint resolution, replacing E pluribus unum ("Out of many, one"), which had been the de facto motto since the initial design of the Great Seal of the United States. It was signed in law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The phrase first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864. The fourth stanza of the U.S. national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner", adopted from the 1814 poem "The Defence of Fort M'Henry", contains the line: "And this be our motto—'In God is our trust'". 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. The origins of "In God We Trust" as a political motto lie in the American...

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