Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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…

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

My pride at wearing the Irish shirt was always 100 per cent genuine. It was a great honour for myself and my family and something I will always cherish.

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.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

I can't tell people what flag to fly.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

Most of these people habitually led rather gray lives. And they came to see the president much as they would have come to see the circus. It was something to talk over and remember and tell their children about. But I think that besides the mere curiosity there was good feeling behind it all, a feeling that the president was their man and symbolized their government, and that they had a proprietary interest in him and wished to see him and that they hoped he embodied their aspirations and their best thoughts.

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

Representing England makes me emotional.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.

Philippines, what an amazing honor it has been to carry your name across my chest and to embody you in all aspects.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.