Gilbert Baker Quotes

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

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.

… tribes with flags

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

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

A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

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

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

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 flag should unite those over whom it flies.

It's your flag and my flag.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

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

Every nation has a flag.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

We always say that National songs have to have a heart, that we don't make cold songs.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

To put on an England shirt to represent your country is a great honour. That feeling never changes.