10 Patriotic Quotes to Celebrate Flag Day

Why is June the perfect month for patrioticmeans five thousand years of struggle upwards.
quotes? Because Flag Day falls on June 14th ofIt is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for
course! Flag Day was first celebrated in 1877,liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in
commemorating the adoption of the Unitedbloom." ~ Alvin Owsley
States flag back in 1777. A one-hundred-year7. "We take the stars from heaven, the red from
anniversary, so to speak. This Flag Day let's showour mother country, separating it by white
our patriotic pride with these ten patriotic quotesstripes, thus showing that we have separated
celebrating and honoring the American Flag.from her, and the white stripes shall go down to
1. "Our flag honors those who have fought toposterity, representing our liberty." ~ George
protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice ofWashington
our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate8. "Our flag means all that our fathers meant in
icon of America's storied history, the Stars andthe Revolutionary War. It means all that the
Stripes represents the very best of this nation." ~Declaration of Independence meant. It means
Joe Bartonjustice. It means liberty. It means happiness....
2. "We do not consecrate the flag by punishing itsEvery color means liberty. Every thread means
desecration, for in doing so, we dilute theliberty. Every star and stripe means liberty." ~
freedom this cherished emblem represents." ~Henry Ward Beecher
William J. Brennan9. "The flag of the United States has not been
3. "Our flag is not just one of many political pointscreated by rhetorical sentences in declarations of
of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of ourindependence and in bills of rights. It has been
national unity." ~ Adrian Cronauercreated by the experience of a great people, and
4. "We have room for but one flag, the Americannothing is written upon it that has not been
flag, and this excludes the red flag whichwritten by their life. It is the embodiment, not of
symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilizationa sentiment, but of a history." ~ Woodrow Wilson
just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a10. "I have seen the glories of art and
nation to which we are hostile. We have room forarchitecture, and mountain and river; I have seen
but one language here and that is the Englishthe sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise
language, for we intend to see that the crucibleover Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which
turns our people out as Americans, of Americanthese eyes ever looked was the flag of my
nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglotcountry in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to
boarding house; and we have room for but one,those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those
sole loyalty, and that loyalty is to the Americanwho hate it, it is the symbol of the power and
people." ~ Theodore Rooseveltglory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans." ~
5. "If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of ourGeorge Frisbie Hoar
flag, I say to him - it means just what ConcordSo remember, it's not just a piece of cloth - it's a
and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant;symbol of challenge, victory, freedom and pride.
which was, in short, the rising up of a valiantIt's a reminder of what those who went before
young people against an old tyranny to establishus had to do to guarantee our freedoms. The
the most momentous doctrine that the world hadAmerican Flag is, and always will be, one of the
ever known - the right of men to their ownmost significant symbols of all time. Let's
selves and to their liberties." ~Henry Wardremember that on this Flag Day as we reflect on
Beecherthese ten patriotic quotes.
6. "That piece of red, white and blue bunting