Flag Quotes

531 quotes by 426 authors

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in… — John Edwards
What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of… — Rick Perlstein
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag. — Adolf Eichmann
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! — Alexander Henry
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence… — Seth Low
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards… — William Hull
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience… — Thomas Starr King
I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars. — Joshua Chamberlain
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. — Amiri Baraka
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. — Franklin Knight Lane
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. — George M. Cohan
I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all… — George William Norris
I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day… — Milos Forman
My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society,… — Alberto Juantorena
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be… — Zebulon Pike
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag. — Al Sharpton
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of… — Henry Cabot Lodge
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. — Andrew Motion
I love a bit of flag-waving. — John Lydon
American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the… — George F Will

Who Wrote These Flag Quotes

426 authors contributed a total of 531 Flag Quotes, led by these top contributors: