‘One for all, all for one’ is Switzerland’s (unofficial) national motto

Switzerland has a motto, albeit not an official one. Closely interwoven with the nation’s best-known founding myths, the phrase “Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” is part of the invisible fabric that has held the country together since the dawn of the federal state. On hearing the words “one for all, all for one”, many would first think of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers – although, to be exact, D’Artagnan and his companions say it the other way around (“all for one, one for all”). For…