Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Brennan

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

Zebulon Pike

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

George Fernandes

Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

All I saw were American flags and I thought, 'holy cow',

Ken Kesey

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

It's just completely nuts. We have banners and flags and hats just kind of decked out all over the place.

They don't want to wave red flags and become targets.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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

would not have raised any flags for me.

I've never seen so many flags fly in a game.

We hope to have more flags next year.

Ann Coulter

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

Stephen Colbert

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

Tom Peters

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.

John Wayne

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.

Mason Cooley

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

I can't imagine someone walking onto that site and not having red flags go up. Someone missed this big time.

James A. Baldwin

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

George Washington

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Chrissie Hynde

If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.

Some of the things that kids will say in interviews, the red flags that are raised, are unbelievable. You'll say to yourself, 'You're kidding me, right?' And I will know: That kid is not getting in.

Jesse Ventura

If you buy the flag it's yours to burn.

Herman Melville

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Our industry is going through another revolution cycle. Six Flags has just been sold. There are individuals and people in the job marketplace who haven't been in the marketplace in a while.

We get the flags a week (before the event).

Orson Scott Card

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.