Worth Repeating

National Guard Bureau

WASHINGTON, May 27, 1998 – "This flag, which we honor and under which we serve, is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation."
Woodrow Wilson
U.S. President
1856-1924

"A thoughtful mind when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself."
Henry Ward Beecher
American clergyman
1813-1887

"There is the national flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country."
Charles Sumner
American politician
1811-1874

"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."
Daniel Webster
American statesman
1782-1852

"Where American citizens go, that flag goes with them to protect them."
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. president
1908-1973