Dok je srca, bit će i Kroacije (As long as there is heart, there will be Croatia) – This motto was originally a line ofAntun Gustav Matoš'sPri svetom kralju, about banToma Erdödy. Erdödy won many battles against theOttomans in the 16th century, while at the time Matoš wrote the poem Croatia was struggling to win greater rights within theAustro-Hungarian Empire.[citation needed][original research?]
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Bog i Hrvati (God and the Croats) – This motto originates fromAnte Starčević's speech to theCroatian Parliament (Sabor) on June 26, 1861, in which he stated that the future of Croatia should not be decided in Austria, but by God and the Croats.[1][2]
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Za dom spremni (For the homeland, ready) – This motto's origin is unknown, but it was notoriously used by theUstashe puppet regime from the period of 1941-1945 duringWorld War II. InCroatian War of Independence it was a motto of Croatian paramilitary soldiers. Today it is still commonly used by Croatian nationalists.[3][4]
