Ad Astra Per Aspera, a Latin phrase with a few translations, through hardship to the stars, a rough road leads to the stars, or to the stars through difficulties, is the Kansas state motto. This is cache #7 in a series of 27 honoring Kansas and Nebraska state symbols along State Line Road.
The phrase has been used in everything from literature to music, as a motto for educational and research instituitions. A motto for citites and provinces across the world, governments and militaries have also used it. It was adopted at the same time as the Great Seal of the State of Kansas by a joint resolution of the first session of the Kansas legislature on May 25th, 1861. The driving force behind the motto was John James Ingalls, who was Massachusetts born, but moved to Kansas and loved the state.
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