Quotes About Flag

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

I name thee Old Glory.

Political rituals — the daily flag salute by schoolchildren, singing the national anthem — use public conformity to build a private belief in patriotism.

We all salute, with pride, the same American Flag. And we are equal - totally equal - in the eyes of Almighty God.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

But to tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.

I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.

I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.

The whole podium time was like it was in slow motion. I was watching the flag go up realizing I'm part of one of the greatest countries on earth.

Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans.

If I was just in one band, I would have a problem with the amount of time between records because I don't want to wave one flag. I just want to be part of something cool.

On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.