I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.
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 national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.
I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.
Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'
The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of people who were fighting against their own government in an attempt to retain slavery. It was the flag of people who thought slavery was no problem, who thought slavery was a good thing.
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?
As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
This flag does not belong to the right wing of the Republican party. It belongs to all of us.
pointing to an American flag
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
The flag of SP means the flag of goons. BSP's flag means the flag of corruption.
Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!
Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.
We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!
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.
A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.
As an Olympian, I wear that flag and I've gone all over the world. I've represented the United States, so I have a deep pride for our flag.
We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.
It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag.
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
I can't tell people what flag to fly.
