Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About American Flag

• 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

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Government

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Patriotism

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

• 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

  Mean, Blessing, Ideas

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