American flag Quote by Frank Gehry

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their…

— Frank Gehry

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

— H. G. Wells

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…

— Barack Obama

There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a…

— Donald C. Peattie

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

— Viggo Mortensen

“Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the…

— Bill Maher

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

— George Galloway

Patriotism is something I wear in my heart not on my head.

— Nasser Hussain

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

— Michael Ignatieff

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,…

— Bill Moyers

I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.

— George Carlin

We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you…

— Sam Shepard