"To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression."
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"Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast."
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"After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band."
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"We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag."
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"I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it."
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"We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding."
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