Flag Day Quotes
- The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown… — Henry Clay
- And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,… — Thomas Paine
- We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her,… — George Washington
- When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of… — Woodrow Wilson
- Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. — George Washington