17 Quotes about Flag Day

The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner.

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity.  ~Charles Evans Hughes

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations.  ~Henry Cabot Lodge

I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  ~Francis Bellamy

That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards.  It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty.  It is the century plant of human hope in bloom.  ~Alvin Owsley

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.  ~George Washington, attributed

Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. ~Francis Scott Key

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope. ~John Philip Sousa 

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue, ~George M. Cohan

A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers, The banner of the Western land. The emblem of the brave and true ~John Philip Sousa

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?  ~Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus"

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War.  It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant.  It means justice.  It means liberty.  It means happiness.... Every color means liberty.  Every thread means liberty.  Every star and stripe means liberty.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.  ~George Washington, attributed

You're a grand old flag, You're a high flying flag And forever in peace may you wave. ~George M. Cohan

Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it, Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it, Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it, Here comes the flag! ~Arthur Macy, The Flag

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. ~Joseph Rodman Drake, The American Flag

I am whatever you make me, nothing more.  I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution.  I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be.  I am whatever you make me, nothing more.  ~Franklin Knight Lane