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Quotes About Flag

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
~ Feist
The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of people who were fighting against their own government in an attempt to retain slavery. It was the flag of people who thought slavery was no problem, who thought slavery was a good thing.
~ John Niven
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
~ Thomas Starr King
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
~ Norman Thomas
Countrymen are saddened by bootlicking media who continue to spread fake news through its homepage and channel and praise politicians who insult national flag
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.
~ Bad Bunny
Ich bin Parker. Er fand es höflich, das zu erwähnen, aber sie sah ihn an, als hätte er eine Flagge mit der Ausschrift Volltrottel gehisst.
~ Kai Meyer
She was wearing an aggressive three-piece outfit that was probably very expensive but had the kind of pattern you would get if you cut up the flags of several obscure countries and then gave them to a blind pigeon to stick back together again.
~ Kate Atkinson
Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.
~ Jasper Johns
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
~ Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
~ Adrian Cronauer
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
~ James Bryce
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.
~ Emma Goldman
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
~ Emma Goldman
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
~ Umberto Eco
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
~ Michael Ignatieff
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Never be ashamed of your patriotism.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back!
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'
~ Terry McAuliffe
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
~ Pauline Hanson