Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Quotes

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

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

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

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

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.

The flag is the guarantor and symbol of equality.

This flag does not belong to the right wing of the Republican party. It belongs to all of us.

I flung forward the flag of the country, sure that the people would press onward and defend it.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian; I am an American.... All distinctions are thrown down; all America is one mass.

Let us exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions. Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice.

Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.

While people might talk about the divisions in this country, what I've seen is that across this country, we share so much in common, we share so many values, we want to take care of one another - that's what it means to be Canadian.

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

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

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.

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

No one can undermine national unity.

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

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

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…

Respect for the flag transcends political party.

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.

America is not held together by a common race, religion or ethnicity; it is held together by shared values.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.