Flags Quotes - Page 31

• My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

  Derek Webb

  Country, Kings, Men

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• Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.

  Thomas Woods

  Song, Children, Wall

  FaceBook post by Tom Woods from Sep 27, 2011

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• Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Country, Ice Cream

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

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• Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

  Tom Hornbein

  Nature, Travel, Orange

  Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books

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• We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Goes On, Failing

  "We Shall Fight on the Beaches". Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, winstonchurchill.org. June 4, 1940.

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• FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rags, Troops, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

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• If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life, And I had to start a new one with just my children and my wife, I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today, 'Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.

  Lee Greenwood

  Stars, Children, Wife

  Lee Greenwood (1992). “God bless the U.S.A. gift book”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Return, Constitution, Supreme

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley on Ivryting and Ivrybody”, Dover Publications

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• 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.

  Zell Miller

  Giving, Soldier, Abuse

  Zell Miller's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.cbsnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.

  Chris Rock

  People, Broken, Car

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

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• It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Running, Dying, Three

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Simple, Proliferation Treaty

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• If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

  Edward Kennedy

  Exercise, Views, Order

  Constituent letter, 1997.

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• I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Thinking, Red Flags

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

  Michael Parenti

  America, Honest, Devotion

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.9, City Lights Books

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• If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.

  Bill Hybels

  Teaching, Red Flags, Kingdoms

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• History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Book, Land, Car

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• If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Air, Sea

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• We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

  Thomas Sowell

  Red Flags, Warning, Might

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• Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Red Flags, Creating, Anxiety

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• We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Party, Writing

  "Quotes From Dem Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 9, 2003.

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• The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

  Katie Couric

  Littles, United States, Culture

  "The Nefarious 'We'" by Jonah Goldberg, www.freerepublic.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

  Stephen Colbert

  Want, Microwaves

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• Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Forever, Liberty

  Andrew Johnson (1862). “Expulsion of Mr. Bright: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, January 31, 1862”, p.16

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• It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, "You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter." But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, "I wonder if I can do this." And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.

  Kevin Smith

  Stupid, Kids, Goal

  "A chat with Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith interview, The Best of the SModcast, Reaper". Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 7, 2009.

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