motto

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And for 88 years, Damburger — now operating out of a squat brick-and-mortar restaurant in downtown Redding — has dished out what is, according to its official motto, “the best hamburger by a dam site.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Laxmi Ghimire, another activist at Sunday's protest, said "promoting a motto of good governance will not make the country and its people feel it".

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

With a motto of "If we have it, you can have it", the charity has sent out thousands of items anonymously to parents to collect from 16 libraries.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

You could tell her motto was “When trouble strikes—vanish.”

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel