Flag Quotes
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Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
Lester B. Pearson -
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism.
Sinclair Lewis
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It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.
Lesley Stahl -
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
Tertullian -
The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.
Albert Einstein -
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.
Stevie Wonder -
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
Lewis H. Lapham
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If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!
Gary Player -
Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.
Walter Hagen -
It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.
Alistair Cooke -
Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The union of hearts-the union of hands-And the flag of our Union forever. - George Pope Morris. Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes for ever gleam; Snow-white and souldwhite- The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright- The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through the night.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
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The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
Virginia Foxx -
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
Seneca the Younger -
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
Abraham Lincoln -
Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
Nicholas von Hoffman -
Sogeking... SHOOT THAT FLAG.
Eiichiro Oda -
Sort of like a grown-up version of capture the flag.
Christopher Ferguson
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Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.
Bela Kiraly -
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
Henry Ward Beecher -
That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
Finley Peter Dunne -
As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.
Adolf Hitler