In God We Trust

"In God We Trust" is the National Motto of the United States of America. It was so designated by an act of Congress in 1956, superseding "E Pluribus Unum".

The final stanza of the Star-Spangled Banner, written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key (and later adopted as the U.S. National Anthem) contains one of the earliest references to a variation of the phrase: "...And this our motto be: "In God is our trust."