Flags Quotes

516 quotes by 417 authors

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in… — Bill Moyers
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. — Rufus Choate
Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats… — John Stark
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not… — John Wayne
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of… — Barbara Kingsolver
America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in… — Norman Mailer
Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever… — Julianne Malveaux
You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq… — Barack Obama
My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window.… — Katha Pollitt
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and… — Tony Benn
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the… — Albert Einstein
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes… — Carl Sagan
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. — Ulysses S. Grant
I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow… — Eric Close
Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a… — Martin Rees
The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing… — Robert Dallek
Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time,… — Jodi Kantor
Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is… — Terry Wogan
Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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