American Flag Quotes - Page 2

• I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

  George Foreman

  Blue, White, America

  Interview with Dave Zirin, www.counterpunch.org. November 7, 2003.

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• Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

  Billy Joel

  Children, Men, Flags

  Song: Allentown, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Home, Flags, Moscow

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• I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

  Joe Scarborough

  Country, People, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Flags, Wave, Ifs

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• God bless America, land that I love,
  Stand beside her, and guide her,
  Through the night, with the light from above,
  From the mountains, to the prairies
  To the oceans, white with foam
  God bless America, my home sweet home,
  God bless America! My Home Sweet Home!

  Irving Berlin

  Sweet, Ocean, Home

  "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1

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• As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Hands, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

  Barry Goldwater

  Respect, Flags, Earth

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• If you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?

  Ainsley Earhardt

  School, Usa, Flying

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• [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

  John Ashcroft

  Rights, Effort, Scary

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• Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

  Donald Trump

  People, Together, Flags

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I wear [American flag] all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want to.

  Kesha

  Want, Flags, Speak

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

  Jasper Johns

  Morning, Night, Flags

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

  Sinclair Lewis

  America, Flags

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• Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

  John Stark

  Sleep, Usa Patriotism, Flags

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

  Alan Keyes

  Stars, Sea, Long

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• The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

  Shane Claiborne

  God, Christian, Stars

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.197, Harper Collins

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• Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Military, Sleep, Patriotic

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• When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

  Janeane Garofalo

  Insulting, Flags, Insulting Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

  Brit Hume

  Attitude, Issues, Flags

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

  Chad Hugo

  Opportunity, Trying, Asian

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• I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Giving, Flags, Done

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• When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!

  Unknown

  America, United States, Would Be

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• I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.

  Tom Peters

  Flags, Drawers, Pins

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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