Flags Quotes - Page 29

• Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Men, Eagles

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

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• Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange,
  Although he fleeced the flags of every nation,
  For into a prime minister but change
  His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

  Lord Byron

  Titles, Taxation, Cash

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.80

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• There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Cutting, Men

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• Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

  Johnny Cash

  Military

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• It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.

  Sherman Skolnick

  Mistake, Hero, Patriotic

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• I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .

  James Stephens

  People, Flying, Trying

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• I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

  Carl Sagan

  Rights, Oath Of Office, Wish

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

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• Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Power, Opportunity, Enemy

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• The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

  Tony Benn

  Years, Looks, Dachau

  "Onslaught on Powell by Wedgwood Benn". "The Times" Newspaper, June 4, 1970.

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• Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

  E. Cobham Brewer

  War, Circles, Paris

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• We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Environment, Concerned

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.73, Counterpoint

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• And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Cancer, Thinking, Rocks

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.155, Faber & Faber

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• This is not my fault! Any ideas?” “You don't have a white flag, do you?

  Andy McDermott

  Ideas, White, Faults

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• Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

  Matthew Quick

  Blue, Yellow, People

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Diversity, Together

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Development, Spirit, Aids

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Perseverance, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.529, Wildside Press LLC

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• Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away.

  Jello Biafra

  Order, America, Going Away

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• I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Home, Land

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

  Seneca the Younger

  Military, Soldier, And Love

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• The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

  Mark Twain

  Respect, Office, Pirate

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world.
  The foe long since in silence slept;
  Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone;
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Spring, Sleep

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

  Lady Gaga

  Stars, Freedom, Home

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• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Honesty, Military, Battle

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• Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

  Ronald Reagan

  Marine, Keys, Light

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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