Flag Quotes

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."

Woodrow Wilson

"We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union."

Rufus Choate

"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people."

Woodrow Wilson

"'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

Francis Scott Key

"Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Flag of the free heart's hope and home!"

Joseph Rodman Drake

"Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by!"

Henry Holcomb Bennett

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

Francis Bellamy

"This flag, which we honor and under which we serve, is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation."

Woodrow Wilson

"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself."

Henry Ward Beecher

"O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

Francis Scott Key