Quotes On Our National Flag

#1. Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

Jack White

#3. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Ken Follett

#4. 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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

#6. You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

Brian Urlacher

#7. Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision.

Justin Halpern

#8. Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor ... ? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#10. Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

H.G.Wells

#11. Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

Ian Martin

#12. For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Benito Mussolini

#13. And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

Thomas Paine

#14. It doesn't matter how the story ends as long as you have one

A. Mani

#15. Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.

Margaret Atwood

#16. A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses.

H.G.Wells

#17. (Imitating a Belarus citizen commenting on their national flag) Stupid National Anthem ... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

Bill Bailey

#18. Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

Ken Follett

#19. Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them.
-Royce Westmoreland

Judith McNaught

#20. Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the Royal Family, way worse, and they're people!

Bill Maher

#21. They knew by instinct rather than by insight that this new expansion movement, in which "patriotism . . . is best expressed in money-making" (Huebbe-Schleiden) and the national flag is a "commercial asset" (Rhodes), could only destroy the political body of the nation-state.

Hannah Arendt

#22. As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

Adolf Hitler

#23. A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

Thomas Francis Meagher

#24. When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. My life has been regulated by insomnia," Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.

Mason Currey

#26. I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

Ronald Reagan

#27. If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

Mason Cooley

#28. Love should have no fear. It should have just free love, without any fear, without any aggression; enjoy that pure love.

Nirmala Srivastava

#29. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#30. A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

Adrian Cronauer

#32. I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Saina Nehwal

#33. We will make you realize how ridiculous it was, the lot of you waving the national flag and singing the national anthem. We will prove to you that you are nothing but filthy stinking bodies. That you are no better than the carcasses of starving animals. -

Han Kang