Upon nearly half the medieval jetons which survive pious mottoes are found and often pious devices.
He is intensely proud of his industrial working class upbringing and one of his favourite mottoes is better a broken nose than a bended knee.
The fact that these national mottoes appear on the edge has caused some conservative commentators to decry the designs.
The invention of new printing processes made the pre-printing of mottoes and bookmarks on the perforated paper possible.
It seems to me you could not have two more apt mottoes, one for a bureaucracy and the other for democracy searching after truth, freedom and justice.
I, too, have studied the mottoes of the mover and seconder.
Two of my personal mottoes, for reasons which may not be obvious, are 'small is beautiful' and 'size does not matter'.
One of our mottoes used to be to the effect that our chief industries were copper, fish and tin.
