David Beasley Quotes

It's your flag and my flag.

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

If it [the American flag] is not defended, it is defamed.

Respect for the flag transcends political party.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

If it [the American flag] is not defended, it is defamed. We can't forget the importance of the flag to the ideals of liberty and honor and freedom. To burn the flag, to dishonor it, is simply wrong.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

I despise any flag, not just the American flag. It's a symbol of a piece of land that's considered more important than the human lives on it.

The flag is the guarantor and symbol of equality.

I done but do my duty boys. The flag never touched the ground.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals—a necessary condition for self improvement.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.