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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• 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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• 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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• Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

  Knut Hamsun

  Nature, Horse, Men

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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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• The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink his cup of woe,Triumphant over pain,Who patient bears his cross below,He follows in His train.

  Reginald Heber

  Pain, War, Son

  Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.17

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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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• 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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• 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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• Their own souls rose and cried
  Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
  Of stricken freedom and along the gale
  Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.

  John Le Gay Brereton

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Rose

  John Le Gay Brereton, “The Dead”

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• I'm a star, no spangled banner

  Drake

  Stars, Cocky

  Song: Light Up, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Rain, Army

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• Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Towers, Youth

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.

  Shawn Achor

  Struggle, Color, Years

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• What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

  Richard Branson

  Hurt, Two, Feet

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• Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Children, Couple, Moving

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• Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.

  Basilea Schlink

  Running, Jesus, Fall

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• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Suicidal, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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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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• A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Clouds, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iraq, Missions

  "Bush makes historic speech aboard warship". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2003.

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