Banner Quotes - Page 2

• It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

  Georgy Zhukov

  Strong, War, Clear Goals

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 15), 2002.

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• Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

  John Wooden

  Leader, Behinds, Whips

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• I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Victory, Defeat, Conscience

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 79, 1982.

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• The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Opportunity, Moscow

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

  Langston Hughes

  Black, Proud, Shrouds

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.171, University of Missouri Press

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• They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Memorial Day, Loss, Causes

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• I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Victory, Defeat, Awareness

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.74, Penguin UK

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• I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

  Prince Fielder

  Play, Cities, Raises

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

  Ayn Rand

  Sleep, Heart, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Nature, Excellence

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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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. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. 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. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Morning, Stars, Fall

  'The American Flag' in New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819 (attributed also to Fitz-Greene Halleck)

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• Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

  George Iles

  Truth, Men, Enough

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• We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.

  Yakov Sverdlov

  Difficult, Circumstances, Decided

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• Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Heart, Adventure, Events

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

  John Quincy Adams

  War, Ambition, Color

  Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.

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• The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday’s blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.

  Isaac Babel

  Horse, Sunset, Yesterday

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• Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Home, Land

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• Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”

  Walden Bello

  Choices, Community, Promise

  Walden Bello's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

  Umberto Eco

  Reality, Battle, Scratches

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.

  John Elof Boodin

  Hope, Morning, Laughter

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• Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Bohemia, Discretion

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Animal, Men

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Expression, Names, Culture

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• Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.388, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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