Benjamin Harrison Quotes

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

It's your flag and my flag.

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

No one can undermine national unity.

I love my country more than anything else.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

I flung forward the flag of the country, sure that the people would press onward and defend it.

Let us exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions. Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice.

Our patriotism is neither sectional nor sectarian. We may differ in our political and religious beliefs, but we are united for country. Loyalty to the government is our national creed.

My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.

I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.