Audemus jura nostra defendere (Latin "We Dare Defend Our Rights" or "We Dare Maintain Our Rights") is a state motto of Alabama, depicted on a yellow ribbon below the coat of arms and completed in 1923.

Its original source is a part of poem "What Constitutes a State?" by the 18th-century author Sir William Jones, which included the stanza "Men who their duties know. But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain". The last words were changed by the director of the state Archives Marie Bankhead Owen and translated into Latin by Professor W. B. Saffold, of the University of Alabama.

Latin mottos | State mottos of the United States