Flag Quotes - page 13

I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of. (T.I.)
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. View quote
Thomas Starr King
We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office. View quote
Will Thomas
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. View quote
William Hull
Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place. View quote
Zebulon Pike
All ethnicities and groups in Syria should begin the process of reconstruction within a single unit under the Syrian flag. View quote
Mohammad Javad Zarif
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. View quote
Mary Harris Jones
If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. View quote
Antonin Scalia
I would like to say to you, to the leaders of the left, and the leaders of the right, I sing... I sing for everyone. My song has no flag, my song has no party. View quote
Leonard Cohen
In a racially diverse society, it makes sense to phase out state sanction for the battle flag - as South Carolina governor Nikki Haley advocated yesterday, in calling on the state legislature to vote for the removal of the battle flag that has been flying over the grounds of the state capitol... View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
[T]he Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization... (Victor Davis Hanson)
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland. View quote
Menachem Begin
I want Britain to become an Islamic state. I want to see the flag of Islam raised in 10 Downing Street. View quote
Omar Bakri
I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot. View quote
Melanie C
From the beginning of the [Sovjet] Revolution I was a member of the Committee for Art. Was commissioned for the first Soviet flag for the First of May 1918, which was carried across Red Square by members of the government. Later I worked at 'Izo Narkomprosa'. From 1919 I taught at the Higher Artists' Workshops in Vitebsk (our students Suetin, Judin and others). View quote
El Lissitsky
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away? View quote
Ron Paul
The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender. View quote
Lou Holtz
My primary concern is visual form. The visual meaning may be discovered afterwards – by those who look for it. Two meanings have been ascribed to these American Flag paintings of mine. One position is: 'He's painted a flag so you don't have to think of it as a flag but only as a painting'. The other is: 'You are enabled by the way he has painted it to see it as a flag and not as a painting. View quote
Jasper Johns
The Flag links up the past and the present. It is the legacy bequeathed to us by the architects of our liberty. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
This flag tells us "Be ever alert, be ever on the move, go forward, work for a free, flexible, compassionate, decent, democratic society in which Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists will all find a safe shelter." Let us all unite under this banner and rededicate ourselves to the ideas our flag symbolizes. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Step right up young lady Your two hundred birthdays make you old if not senile And we see the symptoms there in your rigor mortis smile With your old folks eating dog food and your children eating paint While the pirates own the flag and sell us sermons on restraint. (Harry Chapin)
This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back. View quote
Tom Tancredo
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nations flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled. View quote
André Breton
Mosby, Rhett, Davis, Stephens, and other Confederates had no difficulty conceding what their descendants go to enormous lengths to deny, that the raison d'être of the Confederacy was the defense of slavery. It follows that, as the paramount symbol of the Confederate nation and as the flag of the armies that kept the nation alive, the St. Andrew's cross is inherently associated with slavery. This conclusion is valid whether or not secession was constitutional. It is valid whether or not most southern soldiers consciously fought to preserve slavery. It is valid even though racism and segregation prevailed among nineteenth-century white northerners. View quote
Jefferson Davis