WRITE AN ESSAY ON "UNITY IS STRENGTH "
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"L'Union fait la force" redirects here. For the game show, see L'Union fait la force (game show). For the Chinese song, see Unity is Strength.
Netherlands, gold ducat (1729) with the motto concordia res parvae crescent on the obverse, found in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipwreck 't Vliegend Hert
"Unity makes strength" (Bulgarian: Съединението прави силата; West Frisian: Iendracht makket macht; Dutch: Eendracht maakt macht, pronounced [ˈeːndrɑxt maːkt mɑxt] (About this soundlisten); French: L'union fait la force) is a motto that has been used by various states and entities throughout history. It is used by Bulgaria and Haiti on their coats of arms and is the national motto of Belgium, Bolivia, Georgia and Bulgaria. Until 2000, it was the national motto of South Africa.
The motto was originally used by the Dutch Republic. It was derived from the Latin phrase concordia res parvae crescunt ("small things flourish by concord"), used in the Bellum Iugurthinum of Roman Republican writer Sallust.[1]
The similar moral of the Aesopic fable "The Old Man and his Sons" has been rendered in various related ways: "All power is weak unless united" (1668),[2] "Unity makes strength, strife wastes" (1685),[3] "Strength lies in union" (1867),[4] "Strength is in unity" (1887),[5] "Unity is strength" (title), "Union gives strength" (moral) (1894),[6] "Union is strength" (1912),[7] "In unity is strength" (1919);[8] although older versions are more specific: "Brotherly love is the greatest good in life and often lifts the humble higher" (2nd century),[9] "Just as concord supplies potency in human affairs, so a quarrelsome life deprives people of their strength" (16th century).[10]