Quotes for All
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false … Read more
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel. Ezra Pound
Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes. Ezola B. Foster
I want nothing for myself… My glory is and always will be… the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory. Evita Peron
Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master’s voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to … Read more
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we … Read more
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure. Erik Weihenmayer
Trump’s creating laws for crimes that don’t exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a flag. Eric Walters
And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life. Eric Johnston
I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags. Eric Close