Flags Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  Adam Michnik

  Country, War, Iraq

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• I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

  Art Linkletter

  Mom, Dog, Motherhood

  "'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies" by Duane Byrge, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 26, 2010.

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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, Literature

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

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• Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Soldier, Crow

  Thomas Carlyle (1908). “Sartor Resartus and Essays on Burns and Scott”

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• You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue,' Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

  George M. Cohan

  Heart, Eye, Home

  "Song: You're a Grand Old Flag". 1906.

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• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

  Henry Miller

  Mean, Two, Society

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Light, Trying

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

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• Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

  Greg Ginn

  Black, Firsts

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• Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

  Richard Widmark

  Two Sides, Car, Would Be

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• I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

  Sting

  Opposites, Monogamy, Situation

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• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Wall, Israel, Cities

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• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  Gary Ackerman

  America, Risk, Democracy

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• It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

  Adrian Cronauer

  People, Amendments, Passing

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• On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

  Mary Antin

  Birthday, House, Police

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• Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

  Larry Craig

  Cutting, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Men

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• I've got one Aussie flag on my car. It would be nice to have two.

  Tom Lehman

  Nice, Two, Car

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• Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Stars, Ocean, Blessed

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bridges, America, Rude

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.

  Greg Ginn

  Black, Records, Firsts

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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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• If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

  Amiri Baraka

  Government, Enemy, Slavery

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• I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

  Craig Washington

  Men, Constitution, Wraps

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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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