United States Flags Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We all remember what we need to remember.

Joan Didion

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

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Huey Long

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#6. The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

Katie Couric

#7. Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

Jay-Z

#9. His head jerked up. He had one of the most startling and unwelcome thoughts of the last century.
Am I a boyfriend?
He growled and jerked the door open.

Thea Harrison

#10. A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#11. Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

M. Scott Peck

#12. The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.

Robert Dallek

#13. I went as a passenger, having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. 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