Flags Quotes - Page 3

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

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Pride, American Flag, Flag Day

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• There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

  George Galloway

  Mean, Blow, People

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• I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Life Changing, Judging, Feel Good

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• Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Hypocrisy, Signals, Ostentation

  "Extemporaneous discourses : delivered in the Broadway church, New York" by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Publisher: New York: O. Hutchinson, (p. 319), 1860.

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• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

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  I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Enthusiasm, Real Work

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

  Virginia Foxx

  Democracy, World, American Flag

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2015

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• When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

  Sinclair Lewis

  America, American Flag

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• The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

  Bill Shuster

  Everyday, Liberty, Enjoy

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• Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

  William J. Brennan

  Emblems

  "On Flag Burning, Trump Differs With Scalia but Agrees With Clinton" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. November 29, 2016.

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• If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Wave, American Flag, Ifs

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• When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

  Janeane Garofalo

  Insulting, American Flag, Insulting Me

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

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• The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Stuff, Casting, Trouble

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Victory, Jerusalem, March

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

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• Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

  Thomas Moore

  Slave, Wave, Mockery

  Thomas Moore (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)”, p.348, Delphi Classics

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Land, Pieces

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• A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Iraq, Paris

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

  Zebulon Pike

  Flag Day, Occasions, Medal

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

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• And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Freedom, Home

  Francis Scott Key, “Defence Of Fort M'Henry”

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• Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, America, Fire

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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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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• My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

  James Broughton

  Writing, Issues, Wake Up

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• Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

  Ken Kesey

  Fractals

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• Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Weight, Republic, Empires

  Imperialism (Flag of an Empire), delivered 8 August 1900, Indianapolis, IN

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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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