Countries Having Specific Civil Ensigns
The civil ensigns that are different from the "general" national flag, can be grouped into a number of categories.
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Famous quotes containing the words countries, specific and/or civil:
“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
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“The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)