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Letter "A" » American flag
«We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
American flag, flag, prestige, retain
«When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'»
«There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
adequate, American flag, closely, compulsion, expediency, flank, flanks, mom, on the side, presence of God, The Angels, the bar
«If you have a weak candidate and a weak platform, wrap yourself up in the American flag and talk about the Constitution»
Author: Matthew Stanley Quay
| Keywords:
American Constitution, American flag, candidate, flag, platform, platforms, wrap
«When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke.»
«American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
American flag, American politics, Democratic Party, hostage, in trouble, Iran, The Party
«The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American flag, American people, Christendom, constitute, flag, gathered, goose, ignominious, middle ages, mob, serf, serfs, snivel, sniveling, stepper, steppers, timorous
«We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
American flag, American Revolution, anarchy, flags, Flag of, revolution, The American Revolution, the poor, under control
«We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.»
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