Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness…. Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. – Henry Ward Beecher

The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner. – Author Unknown

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. – Henry Cabot Lodge

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity. – Charles Evans Hughes