Quotes About The United States Flag

#1. Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

Kenny Marchant

#2. Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment ... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

Larry Craig

#3. 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

#4. There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

George McGovern

#5. Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.

Fannie Flagg

#6. It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Wanda Sykes

#7. One of the grandest creations of the New South was a mythical concept of an Old South. What people take to be an epoch was a matter of mere decades of pretension and an exercise in irrational nostalgia.

Paul Theroux

#8. 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.

John F. Kerry

#9. As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

Samantha Power

#10. We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Mignon McLaughlin

#11. Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

Zebulon Pike

#12. (The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

Jeremiah Wright

#13. We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft.

Libby Copeland

#14. While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

Kara Swisher

#15. Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Sam Francis

#16. Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

Ronald Reagan

#17. I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

Alastair Campbell

#18. You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

Helen Jenkins

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Huey Long

#21. My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

Greta Garbo

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

Nikita Khrushchev

#23. I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

Ronald Reagan