 The national anthem written in the early 19th century says this, and thus be it ever when free men shall stand between our loved home and the worst desolation, conquer we must when our cause is just, and this be our motto, in God is our trust. That wasn't written in the 20th century. That was written in the early 19th century, before the Civil War even. It said this be our motto in America, in our national anthem, in God is our trust. Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln's speeches, the second inaugural, the Gettysburg Address, are used language straight out of the King James Bible.