Government Ensign Defaced

Famous quotes containing the words government, ensign and/or defaced:

    “How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
    Long has it waved on high,
    And many an eye has danced to see
    That banner in the sky;”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “I who was a house full of bowel movement,
    I who was a defaced altar,
    I who wanted to crawl toward God
    could not move nor eat bread.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)