Best Flags Quotes

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

I’d buy myself a cabin on the beach, I’d put some glue in my navel, and I’d stick a flag in there. Then I’d wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

The flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.

When I was in college there was a girls’ flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Queen’s University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

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

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.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

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

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag’s fundamental nature.

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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

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

I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that.

Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem… Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

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

I hate The Confederate cause. I’ve always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

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.

Why don’t those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I’m hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I’m worthy to carry the flag. That’s my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.