Flag Quotes
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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 -
What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag.
Arthur Kinoy
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Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.
Matt Gaetz -
As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.
Adolf Hitler -
I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.
Albert Camus -
Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.
Ezola B. Foster -
If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
Henry Ward Beecher -
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down.
Elvis Costello -
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
Scott Ritter -
Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi
George Fernandes -
Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.
Alex Lawther -
Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.
Sarah Silverman
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What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.
Brandon Marshall -
As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
George Eliot -
The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.
Enos Mills -
I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
Eric Johnston -
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
Will Durant
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If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.
Paul Provenza -
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
Victor Hugo -
Some players are identified by certain things. I'd rather be identified by "Can't wait!" than what I was identified by before, which was throwing a referee's flag in the stands. I'll trade that off any day of the week.
Bart Scott -
The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
Wyclef Jean Fugees