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Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.
Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of countries foreign to their owners. The benefits are obvious: lower taxes, laxer labor and safety laws.
I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.
I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.
To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor.
In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.
We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.
The Caprese salad perfectly represents the colors of the Italian flag. While I am not so sure that the colors of the flag stem from the cuisine, there is no denying that those colors do evoke a typical Italian plate.
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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 have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.
It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?
You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.
What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.
The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay movement, there was no other international symbol for us than the pink triangle, which the Nazis used to identify homosexuals in concentration camps. Even though the pink triangle was and still is a powerful symbol, it was very much forced upon us.
I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us.
A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.
The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.
We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!
Yeah, I don't think I'm taking my shirt off to play flag football in the park with the kids.
I remember taking photographs as the local Gauleiter, Albert Forster, harangued huge crowds of Germans in the evenings with a big swastika flag in the background.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
I'm definitely going to continue to make films in Scotland, but that doesn't mean it will be exclusively there, and I don't have any particular need to wave a flag.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
I don't fly the Confederate flag on my property, but I'm not going to try to belittle or embarrass anybody who wants to do that.
If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.
I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.
The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
If there's a Filipino flag waving, will.i.am whispers to me, ‘Filipinos are over there!' And then I wave towards that direction.
'Anthems' was a harsh indictment of American foreign policy; the video for the first single featured an American flag engulfed in a pool of oil, imagery which might have been risque in 2002, but seemed unimaginably passe in the last year of Bush's presidency.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
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