Killer Mike Quotes

Respect for the flag transcends political party.

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

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.

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

We can imagine no more appropriate response to burning a flag than to waving one's own, no better way to counter a flag-burner's message than by saluting the flag that burns, no surer means of preserving the dignity even of the flag that burned than by, as one witness here did, according its remains a respectful burial.

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

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.

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

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

No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I am a man that loves the flag.

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

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

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

I still believe in my country.

My greetings to you, my Germany.

Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.