Famous quotes containing the words american and/or flag:
“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage.... They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”
—Herbert Hoover (18741964)
“Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbowred, yellow, brown, black and whiteand were all precious in Gods sight.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)