Quotes About Flag

And conservatives who view socialism as unpatriotic might also ponder why Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag in 1892, was an avowed Christian socialist.

Being Danish, all you have is your supple grip and your light touch. There are plenty of places in the world where the guest who extends a weaponless hand is the most welcome. A man from a small and weak country is as good as stateless. Just wave your Danish flag. They won't see a white cross against a red background as a crusading banner; they'll just see it as a white cloth. So wrap yourself in its innocence, lao-yeh .

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue,

You're a grand old flag, You're a high flying flag And forever in peace may you wave.

The union of hearts—the union of hands—And the flag of our Union forever!

Os brasileiros levaram toda a tripulação do Pirabebé em seus próprios vasos como prisioneiros. Um oficial brasileiro baixou a bandeira paraguaia, pisou e cuspiu nela, e tudo foi tirado do iate, até mesmo as roupas dos engenheiros.

When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.

The union of lakes - the union of lands - The union of States none can sever - The union of hearts - the union of hands - And the flag of our union for ever!

Destiny was as uncaring and influential as the wind to a flag, carrying the fabric of an individual's existence this way and that, subjecting that which it rocked to its whims without an inquiry as to what the banner may have desired. Or may have prayed for.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

If you know anything about the issues in our country, you know we have a lot of deep-rooted anger and anxieties that spark a lot of passion. When you talk about our national anthem or the flag or race relations or the criminal justice system, it brings up a lot of those fears and insecurities.

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

And there's the man in the green flag!

If it's a first notice, Jason likes to drop by in person, just to show the flag, to emphasize that his organization takes a personal, one-to-one, hands-on, micromanaged approach to debt-related issues.

changing her course several times. And when she spotted the flag raised over Master Chucai's tent, she quickly

That is a very odd thing to see on the Thames," Daniel remarked. "What flag does she fly?" For van Hoek had unlimbered his prospective-glass. "The double eagle. She is a war-galley of the Russian Navy," van Hoek said. Then, after a moment's pause, he laughed at the absurdity of such a thing.

The Cosmic Perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave. An indication that perhaps flag-waving and space exploration do not mix.

A perspectiva cósmica nos lembra que no espaço, onde não há ar, uma bandeira não tremula - um indício de que talvez agitar bandeiras e explorar o espaço não conbinam.

Perspektywa kosmiczna przypomina nam, ?e w przestrzeni pozaziemskiej, gdzie nie ma powietrza, flaga nie zaÅ'opocze Ã¢â'¬â€œ co wydaje siÄ™ wskazówkÄ…, ?e by? mo?e wymachiwanie flagami i eksploracja kosmosu nie idÄ… w parze.

I love flying the flag for Irish designers like Joanne Hynes, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman, Lennon Courtney and Helen Steele.