Flag Burning Quotes

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

I don’t like to see our flag torn down and trampled upon anywhere in the world and I think most Americans agree with me on that. I don’t like to see American citizens pushed around and there’s no good reason for letting it happen

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.

We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

The Coup does not support the American flag.

The Constitution this week is being nibbled to death by small men with press secretaries.

Are there any limitations? Are they going to allow fornication in Times Square at high noon?

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Since we don't have a tyrant or a dictator, we can't put people who are burning flag in jail. But Donald Trump is telling you what he thinks of 'em. He's not gonna do anything of the sort. This is where people go off the rails with Trump, with this literal business and so fort

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.

It is an unmistakable statement of contempt for a government to burn its flag.

A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.

Antonin Scalia was saying, and Donald Trump knows this as well, the answer to it is not to punish people, to shut 'em up, to put 'em in jail. The answer is more speech. If there's some clown burning the flag, drape yourself in the flag and go run around right in the guy's face and start telling him how much you love America. Donald Trump's not gonna put anybody in jail. He's not gonna strip their citizenship. This is how Donald Trump tells people what he thinks about it.

The government may not prohibit expression simply because it disagrees with its message.

The Supreme Court decision [Texas v. Johnson, 1989] does not in any way indicate the government is backing off from forcing the flag on people. They just don't want to look too dictatorial in the way they do it.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

We will take a meaningless vote so that some campaign operatives can try to bludgeon senators who are willing to stand up for the Bill of Rights and vote against this amendment.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -if they do, they must be consequences -perhaps loss of citizenship or year in a jail.