Quotes About American Flags

#1. Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

Bob Dole

#2. Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

Billy Campbell

#3. What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?

Muqtada Al Sadr

#4. Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida but more than in San Francisco.

Zadie Smith

#5. We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Henry Miller

#6. I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.

George Carlin

#7. What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.

Frank Rich

#8. I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

Charles Garfield

#9. When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Sinclair Lewis

#10. I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Keith Richards

#11. My wealth lay in my ability to assist others, so that was my focus.

Tina Louise Spalding

#12. Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

Billy Joel

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

Barry Goldwater

#14. When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

Huey Long

#15. The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars ... it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

John Adams

#16. The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,

Julian Bond

#17. The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

H.L. Mencken

#18. Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.

Sheila Jeffreys

#19. All told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave,

Mark Twain

#20. In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

Herman Kahn

#21. 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.

Tom Peters

#22. American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

Katharine Whitehorn

#23. The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Lee Greenwood

#24. There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Mary Tyler Moore

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

Antonio Villaraigosa

#26. Burn my Flag and I will shoot you ... but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

Johnny Cash

#27. I'm trying out Theodore Finche, '80s kid, and seeing how he fits.
I fish through my desk for a cigarette, stick it in my mouth, and remember as I'm reaching for my lighter that Theodore Finch, '80s kid, doesn't smoke. God, I hate him, the clean-cut, eager little prick.

Jennifer Niven

#28. And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.

Eric Johnston

#29. Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#30. If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag.

Huey Long

#31. I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

Abraham Lincoln

#32. An America we can be proud of, rather than an America to be embarrassed of. You know it's a sign, when you see American backpackers traveling abroad with Canadian flags on their packs!

Dave Wakeling

#33. What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America
it will come wrapped in American flag

Arthur Kinoy

#34. The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag ... The American people will hoist it themselves.

Nikita Khrushchev

#35. I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the U.S.A. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress ... It's too late to pray for the U.S.A.

Fred Phelps