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

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

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That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom. – Alvin Owsley

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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

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We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty. – George Washington, attributed

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman — repose in energy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by

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