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Virginia State Motto"Sic Semper Tyrannis"The Virginia state motto is a Latin motto which in English means "Thus Always to Tyrants". A common used mistranslation of the Virginia motto is "Death to Tyrants" - a translation that may explain the motto's rather unfortunate use through history. 1) If we trace it the furthest back in history we can, we arrive in Rome at scene of the treacherous Marcus Brutus' stabbing of Julius Caesar 44 BCE. (The certainty of Brutus actually using the phrase is somewhat dubious though, perhaps it was just later historians' attempt of adding spice to the event.) 2) If go to relative modern time, we find ourselves in America in 1865, when John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln whilst shouting the phrase out loud. 3) When Timothy McVeigh was arrested in 1995 on the day the bombing of Oklahoma City, he was wearing a t-shirt featuring Lincoln and accompanied by the Virginia state motto The Virginia state motto was suggested by George Mason, an American statesman who today is considered one of the Founding Fathers of America. The Virginia motto appears as part of the state seal and was adopted in 1776. Virginia State Nicknames "The Old Dominion" King Charles named the Virginians "the best of his distant children", a status of which the inhabitants were proud to possess. 'Dominion' is an expression of ownership of a piece of land or territory. "Mother of States" "Mother of Statesmen" "Mother of Presidents"
"The Cavalier State" This Virginia nickname refers to the English Cavaliers that entered Virginia during and immediately after the reign of King Charles I. Virginia State Slogans "Virginia is for Lovers" with a later addition "Live Passionately" and "Where Love Lives" The Virginia slogan "Virginia is for Lovers" is still going very strong this very day as it was inscribed into the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame in 2009. "Virginia: Down Where the South Begins" "Virginia is for Lovers: Hardcore, Anything Goes Three-Way Lovers" "Vagina is for Lovers" "Vagina: A Place for Lovers" "Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs and Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?" "Virginia: Please Don't Confuse Us with West Virginia"
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