Famous quotes containing the words american and/or flag:
“If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fatea sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (19111978)
“Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)