Flag Day Quotes

• We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

  George Washington

  Mother, Country, Stars

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• The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Pride, Flags, American Flag

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• Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

  Joe Barton

  Stars, Hero, Sacrifice

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  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

  James Bryce

  Country, Memorial Day, Peace

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• Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Views, Political, Unity

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• Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

  George M. Cohan

  4th Of July, Heart, Blue

  "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.

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• Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

  George Washington

  Wise, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• 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

  Stars, Father, War

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• The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Rights, People, Independence

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The red and white and starry blue
  Is freedom's shield and hope.

  John Philip Sousa

  Blue, White, Shields

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• The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

  Virginia Foxx

  Democracy, Flags, World

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2015

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• The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

  Jeff Miller

  Country, Years, Old Glory

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• When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Stars, Night, Air

  JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1836). “THE CULPRIT FAY”, p.89

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• The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Flags, Sacred, American Flag

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Flags, Glory, Makers

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• We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

  William J. Brennan

  Freedom, Flag Burning, Flags

  "Dear President-Elect Trump, this Free Speech thing is Way Out of Control" by Anne Clendening, www.elephantjournal.com. November 30, 2016.

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• My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Dream, Stars, Stripes

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• Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Heart, Patriotic, Eye

  Henry Cuyler Bunner (1896). “The Poems of H.C. Bunner ...”

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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

  Veterans Day, Mean, Men

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

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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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• I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Shadow, Flags

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  There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press

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• White collar conservative flashin' down the street,
  Pointing that plastic finger at me,
  Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
  But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Freedom, White, Flags

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

  Zebulon Pike

  Flags, Occasions, Medal

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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