Flags Quotes - Page 2

• If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

  Omar Torrijos

  Fall, Kissing, Picks

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• We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

  Calvin Coolidge

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Home

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• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Symbolism, Hopeful, Cynical

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Shadow, Flag Day

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• Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

  Bette Midler

  Running, Winning, Battle

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• The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Citizenship, He Man

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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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• The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, People, Patriotism

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  Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

  William Manchester

  Country, Fighting, Marine

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• Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Blessing

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• Don't waive your rights with your flags.

  Sage Francis

  Rights

  Song: Makeshift Patriot

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• As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag

  Allen West

  Color, Skins, Care

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

  Adrian Cronauer

  Sacred, American Flag, Flag Day

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

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Glory, Flag Day, Makers

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• 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”

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• Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Stars, Home, Heart

  Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.84

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• And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

  Thomas Paine

  Beautiful, Eye, Views

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

  Mother Jones

  Believe, Movement, Protection

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• We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Stars, Military

  Theodore Roosevelt (1925). “The foes of our own household; The great adventure; Letters to his children”

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
  And black despair succeeds brown study.

  William Congreve

  Black, Brain, Despair

  "An Impossible Thing". Poem by William Congreve, 1720.

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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, Conservative

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

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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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• If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

  Norman Thomas

  Gestures, Want, Symbolic

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• Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Black And White, Yellow

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• Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Twilight, Home

  "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)

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