Top 73 Flag Quotes

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Flags are used to represent countries as well as other organizations. With that in mind, check out the top 73 flag quotes.

#73 – 70. Flag Quotes

73. They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket! – Bill Moyers

72. I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it. – John Thune

71. Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O’er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? – Francis Scott Key

70. I didn’t know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn’t be able to get the car. I’ve still got a red flag on my credit. -Claude Brown

#69 – 60. Flag Quotes

69. The flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away. – Lee Greenwood

68. What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.-  Chris Witty

67. Ev’ry heart beats true ‘neath the Red, White and Blue – George M. Cohan

66. Don’t waive your rights with your flags. – Sage Francis

65. Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag. – Bela Kiraly

64. I don’t want the news to be patriotic, I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors, I don’t want any of that. – Aaron McGruder

63. What the American people must never forget – is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag – Arthur Kinoy

62. Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings. – Henry Ward Beecher

61. People who enjoy waving flags don’t deserve to have one. – Banksy

60. Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don’t wave that thing at me. – Bruce Cockburn

#59 – 50. Flag Quotes

59. Only one flag Flies above all the rest: The flag of universal oneness. – Sri Chinmoy

58. Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. – Larry Craig

57. A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone. – Orson Scott Card

56. The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday. – Bill Shuster

55. If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag, wash it. – Norman Thomas

54. Plant your flag, respectfully stand for truth, justice, and freedom for all. – LM Fields

53. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. – Nathan Bedford Forrest

52. A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s 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. – Henry Ward Beecher

51. 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. – David Lloyd George

50. I’m just always learning lines. I’ve learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. – Claire Danes

#49 – 40. Flag Quotes

49. There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. – Arthur C. Clarke

48. We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige – Barry Goldwater

47. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. – Woodrow Wilson

46. Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great. – Andrew Ryan

45. We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. – William J. Brennan

44. The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. – Kin Hubbard

43. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. – Nathan Bedford Forrest

42. Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. – William Manchester

41. If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. – Amiri Baraka

40. This is not my fault! Any ideas?” “You don’t have a white flag, do you? – Andy McDermott

#39 – 30. Flag Quotes

39. There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. – Howard Zinn

38. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. – Arundhati Roy

37. If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag. – Antonio Villaraigosa

36. If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it. – Bette Midler

35. The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. – Adrian Cronauer

34. We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done. – Calvin Coolidge

33. If you tell a guy you don’t like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that’s a red flag. – Anna Kendrick

32. If you don’t have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist. – Chrissie Hynde

31. (Obama’s) a nice person, he’s very articulate this is what’s been used against him, but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic. – Dan Rather

30. When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag. – Sinclair Lewis

#29 – 20. Flag Quotes

29. It was something I really wanted to do. I can’t imagine what it will be like to carry the flag and walk through the doors of the stadium. I’m thrilled to lead the team. – Chris Witty

28. 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

27. There’s a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. – Brit Hume

26. A flag doesn’t cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people. – Rich Lowry

25. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

24. In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life—one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough. – BILL MOYERS

23. If that’s what you’re thinking, then don’t even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother. – Anthony Kiedis

22. We have way better nazi flags than THAT one. – Burnie Burns

21. We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. – Wendell Berry

20. A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation’s flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. – Henry Ward Beecher

#19 – 10. Flag Quotes

19. Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag’s fundamental nature. – Adrian Cronauer

18. Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. – Adrian Cronauer

17. Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. – John Wayne

16. As Conservatives, We Don’t Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag – Allen West

15. The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. – Laurence J. Peter

14. There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade. – Beth Ditto

13. I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag. – Craig Washington

12. To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. – Pauline Hanson

11. Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others! – Bob Dole

10. I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow. – Franklin Knight Lane

#9 – 1. Flag Quotes

9. For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. – Bret Harte

8. Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey

7. It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment. – Adrian Cronauer

6. Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes. – Ezola B. Foster

5. If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. – Omar Torrijos

4. Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They’re the symbol of nationalism to many. – Arundhati Roy

3. Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. – Theodore Roosevelt

2. If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents. – Jerrold Nadler

1. You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. – Franklin Knight Lane

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