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The United States National Motto is "In God We Trust."  It was adopted for our coins on March 3, 1865 by Congress.  The phrase is taken from the 4th verse of the Star Spangled Banner:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-03-03&view=View</ref>

The United States National Motto is "In God We Trust."  It was adopted for our coins on March 3, 1865 by Congress.  The phrase is taken from the 4th verse of the Star Spangled Banner:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-03-03&view=View</ref>

:O thus be it ever when free men shall stand,  

:O! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,

:Between their loved home and the war's desolation;

::Between their lov’d home, and the war’s desolation,

:Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land,  

:Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land,

:Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!  

::Praise the Power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!

:Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just;

:Then conquer we must, when out cause it is just,

:And this be our motto IN GOD IS OUR TRUST!

:And this be our motto—“In God is our Trust;”

:And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave  

:::And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,

:Over the land of the free and the home of the brave!"  

:::O’er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave <ref>Library of Congress—copy of “Defence of Fort M’Henry" by Francis Scott Key[http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100010457/enlarge.html?page=1&section=&size=1024&from=pageturner]</ref>

At the time the House Speaker Schuyler Colfax declared:  

At the time the House Speaker Schuyler Colfax declared: