
Alabama: “invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God”
Alaska: “grateful to God and to those who founded our nation… in order to secure and transmit succeeding generations our heritage of political, civil, and religious liberty”
Arizona: “grateful to Almighty God for our liberties”
Arkansas: “grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government, for our civil and religious liberty”
California: “grateful to Almighty God for our freedom”
Colorado: “with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe”
Connecticut: “acknowledge with gratitude, the good providence of God”
Delaware: “Through Divine goodness, all men have by nature the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their own conscience”
Florida: “being grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty”
Georgia: “relying upon the protections and guidance of Almighty God”
Hawaii: “grateful for Divine Guidance”
Idaho: “grateful to Almighty God for our freedom”
Illinois: “grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty which He has permitted us to enjoy and seeking His blessing upon our endeavors”
Indiana: “grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our own government”
Iowa: “grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings”
Kansas: “grateful to Almighty God for our civic and religious privileges”
Kentucky: “grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political, and religious liberties we enjoy”
Louisiana: “grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political, economic, and religious liberties we enjoy”
Maine: “acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the universe in affording us an opportunity, so favorable to the design; and imploring God’s aid and direction in its accomplishments, do agree”
Maryland: “grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty”
Massachusetts: “acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the Universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, and opportunity”
Michigan: “grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom”
Minnesota: “grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty”
Mississippi: “grateful to Almighty God, and invoking blessings of freedom”
Missouri: “with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness”
Montana: “grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty”
Nebraska “grateful to Almighty God for our freedom”
Nevada: “Grateful to Almighty God for our freedom in order to secure its blessings”
New Hampshire: “unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience”
New Jersey: “grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure…”
New Mexico: “grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty”
New York: “grateful to Almighty God for our Freedom”
North Carolina: “grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations”
North Dakota: “grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty”
Ohio: “grateful to Almighty God for our freedom”
Oklahoma: “Invoking the guidance of Almighty God”
Oregon: “to worship Almighty God”
Pennsylvania: “grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance”
Rhode Island: “grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors”
South Carolina: “grateful to God for our liberties”
South Dakota: “grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties”
Texas: “Humbly invoking the blessings of Almighty God”
Tennessee: “to worship Almighty God”
Utah: “Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty”
Vermont: “to worship Almighty God”
Virginia: “…duty which we owe to our Creator… mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity”
Washington: “grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties”
West Virginia: “Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and religious liberty… reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God…”
Wisconsin: “grateful to Almighty God for our freedom”
Wyoming: “grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties”