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  • The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

    Feet   Flags   Staff  
  • I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

  • The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

  • Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

  • Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

    Country   Patriotic   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press
  • If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?

    Men   Russia   Games  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.

    Issues   Flags   Council  
  • The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

    Stars   Sea   Long  
  • A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

    Country   Burning   Done  
    George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
  • When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!

  • This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.

    Order   Years   Cost  
  • A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

  • On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

    Birthday   House   Police  
  • Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

    Race   Flames   Cities  
    Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin
  • Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

    Pirate   Black   Flags  
  • Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.

    "Janeane Garofalo". TV Special, August 23, 1997.
  • Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

    Hate   Class   Training  
  • Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

    War   Circles   Paris  
  • There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

    "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.
  • I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

  • Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to his master that he loved, and gamboled there and licked his hand in heart-full joy. Again the victor's crown was his, and the master, a man of dogs, caressed the head of shining black with the jewel eyes of gold.

    Friendship   Dog   Cheer  
    Ernest Thompson Seton (1945). “Santana: The Hero Dog of France”, Los Angeles : Phoenix Press
  • What does it take for Republicans to take off the flag pin and say, 'I am just too embarrassed to be on this team'?

    Team   Doe   Flags  
  • 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, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.375, University of Illinois Press
  • The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship because they burned the American flag. And if you don't believe that, you haven't been reading constitutional law for the past seventy years.

    Reading   Believe   Past  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

    "We Shall Fight on the Beaches". Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, winstonchurchill.org. June 4, 1940.
  • [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

    Rights   Effort   Scary  
  • You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

  • As far as other people like in the migration, where they're going, tens of thousands of people having cell phones with ISIS flags on them? I don't think so.They're not coming to this country.And if I'm president and if Obama has brought some to this country, they are leaving. They're going. They're gone.

    Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
  • People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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