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Your Quotes for 14 June 2005 - Flag Day

The design of a flag for the inchoate United States was decided on this day in 1777, and today is celebrated as Flag Day in this country. That was the original, with a circle of 13 white stars that Betsy Ross may (or may not, her contribution is far more legend than history) have sewn on a field of blue. I have mixed feelings about the flag. It's a great symbol for a great country, but it may have been the refuge of patriotic scoundrels almost as often as it has been an inspiration. Here are some quote on The Flag.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
     - Arthur C. Clarke

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

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
     - Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 1906 - 1992

Our flag is our national ensign, pure and simple, behold it! Listen to it! Every star has a tongue, every stripe is articulate.
     - Senator Robert C. Winthrop, 1809-1894

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.
     - U.S. Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson

The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
'Twas red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
     - Julia Ward Howe, 1819 - 1910

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