Flag of the United States Quotes

“Uphold the flag; the American flag.”

“[S]tand fast to the Union and the old flag.”

“Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!”

“The flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away!”

“Oh, may our stars and stripes still wave forever o'er the free and brave!”

“I'm a Marine. I don't need to fly a little flag on my car to show I'm patriotic.”

“"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.”

“The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.”

“Up with the banner so glorious, the star-spangled red, white, and blue! We'll fight until our banner's victorious!”

“I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.”

“[T]he now infamous banner of the Yankee vandals.”

“Oh, give us a flag, all free without a slave! We'll fight to defend it, as our fathers did so brave... We'll stand by the Union, if we only have a chance.”

“[M]any college campuses do not have an American flag on their campus because some students regard it as 'offensive'; representing imperialism and capitalism.”

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

“I've seen through my life many times when people with hate in their heart put fire to the American flag. This time, permit me to go to your flag and, in the name of my people, give it a kiss.”

“The Confederacy sought to overthrow our constitutional government. When the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, they were not merely firing at 'Federals' or the Union army. They were firing at the United States Army and the U.S. flag.”

“It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.”

“The star spangled banner bring hither. O'er Columbia's true sons let it wave. May the wreaths they have won never wither. Nor its stars cease to shine on the brave...Thy banners make tyranny tremble when borne by the red, white and blue... Three cheers for the red, white, and blue!”

“It is worthy of note that while in this the Government's hour of trial large numbers of those in the Army and Navy who have been favored with the offices have resigned and proved false to the hand which had pampered them, not one common soldier or common sailor is known to have deserted his flag.”

“The American flag flies again over our embassy in Kabul. Terrorists who once occupied Afghanistan now occupy cells at Guantanamo Bay. And terrorist leaders who urged followers to sacrifice their lives are running for their own.”