Esto perpetua

The motto appears on the back of the 2007 Idaho quarter dollar coin.

The day before his death he had dictated three replies to questions on affairs of state, and his last words were "Esto perpetua" reportedly in reference to his beloved Republic (of Venice), and translated as "Mayest thou endure forever!"

These words were also repeated by Henry Grattan upon the achievement of Irish legislative independence in 1782.

The phrase was used by Jefferson Davis at the close of his book Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in a wish that it may be "Written on the arch of the Union."

Of his attempt to break up the Union, he said "I recognise the fact that the war showed it to be impractical".