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"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag." »Zell Miller
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"Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider." »Robert Frost
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"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." »Peter Drucker
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"When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag." »Huey Long
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"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it." »Norman Thomas
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"When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag." »Huey Long
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"If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot." »John A. Dix
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"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed." »Confucius
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"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ." »H. L. Mencken
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"rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." »Louis
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"There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats." »H. L. Mencken
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"I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics)" »Matt Ghaffari
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"The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder." »William Shakespeare
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." »H. L. Mencken
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." »Albert Einstein
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"History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield." »Mario Van Peebles
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"Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future." »Ronald Reagan
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"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse." »Henry Tuckerman
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"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe-shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the Science!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors." »Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
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