Flags Quotes - Page 18

• And there's the man in the green flag!

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Men, Motor Racing

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• The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

  Dave Beard

  Athlete, Men, Games

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• There will be no white
  flag above my door, I'm in
  love and always will be

  Dido Armstrong

  Doors, White, White Flag

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• If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Humble, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Giving Up, Men, Land

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

  Max Lerner

  Gratitude, Mean, Teeth

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• So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.

  Johnny Cash

  Morning, Night, Proud

  Johnny Cash (2004). “Johnny Cash, the Songs”

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• We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Hate, Real, War

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Nature, Sky, Tree

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• 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.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Home, Writing, Relatives And Friends

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.46, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

  LeVar Burton

  Geek

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

  William Cowper Brann

  Ignorance, Rights, Perfect

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• I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.

  Jessica Ennis

  People, Want, Steps

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

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• My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

  Don McLean

  Grateful, People, Forever

  Don McLean (2008). “The Legendary Songs of Don McLean (Songbook)”, p.82, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

  Toby Keith

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Song: Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue, Album: Greatest Hits 2, 2002

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• Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

  Tupac Shakur

  Politics, Neglect, Allegiance

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• Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Sex, Degrees, Politics

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• Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

  John Prine

  Religious, Jesus, Heaven

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• These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  America, Liberty, Complaining

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.

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• I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

  Stephen Stills

  Rock And Roll, Names, Flying

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• I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Want, Overweight, Unhealthy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

  Amanda Plummer

  Character, Cutting, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Self Esteem, Pride, Achievement

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

  Bill Shuster

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

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