Country Quote by Ken Follett

“Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?”

— Ken Follett

“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

“No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of…

— Bryant McGill

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I…

— Mike Watkins

Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Flags are blossoming now where little else is blossoming and I am bent on fathoming what it means to love my country. The history…

— Adrienne Rich

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

— Ann Coulter

“No one who waves a big flag is up to any good.”

— Project Itoh

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…

— John Wayne

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

— Arundhati Roy

“A big, sandy-haired man held his daughter on his shoulders, showing her the Statue of Liberty. I would never know what this statue meant…

— James Baldwin

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

— George Galloway