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"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."
"We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen."
"So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag."
"Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress."
"Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England."
"A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit."
"Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound."
"When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?."
"We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end."
"I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag."
"to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale."
"Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason."
"Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny."
"A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people."
"It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground."
"I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag."
"When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household."
"It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore."
"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."
"I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships."
