Union Flag Flown

Famous quotes containing the words union, flag and/or flown:

“If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two years of age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“And when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)