Country Quote by Reinhold Messner

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you…

— David McCullough Jr

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

— Margaret Thatcher

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

— Mark Twight

You can salute the flag. You can revere the flag. You can respect the flag. And all of those are fine. What you cannot…

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

— Alex Lawther

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

— Ron Paul

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

— Buzz Aldrin

I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't…

— Edmund Hillary

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily…

— Wendell Berry

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

— Barry Goldwater

Our politics is about people not flags.

— Johann Lamont

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country.…

— Charles Sumner