| "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 |
| "If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it." »Norman Thomas |
| "If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot." »John A. Dix |
| "union gives strength." »Aesop |
| "I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics)" »Matt Ghaffari |
| "There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men." »Homer |
| "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." »French Proverb |
| "My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me." »Claiborne Pell |
| "People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in." »Margaret Cho |
| "It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God." »Thomas Merton |
| "The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "... I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race." »Cicero |
| "What do you gain, Soviet union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)" »Golda Meir |
| "Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers." »US Supreme Court |
| "Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual." »Albert Einstein |
| "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots." »George Santayana |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana |
| "I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)" »Lizzy Gardiner |
| "The Soviet union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party." »Ronald Reagan |
| "The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality." »The Divine Pymander |
| "The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves." »Jefferson Davis |
| "The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." »Abraham Lincoln |
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