"Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us."
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"The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag."
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"I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot."
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"As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag"
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"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
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"Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve."
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"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag."
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"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"
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"The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal."
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"Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal."
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"Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness."
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"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."
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"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."
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"We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being."
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"There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins."
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"You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that."
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"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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"Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation."
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"Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused."
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"Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly."
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