97 National Anthem Quotes
Following is our list of national anthem quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about national flag.
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Famous National Anthem Quotes
The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem. — Bill Belichick
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. — Francis Scott Key
Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue — George M. Cohan
America is a tune. It must be sung together. — Gerald Stanley Lee
God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above. — Irving Berlin
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? — Francis Scott Key
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. — Joseph Rodman Drake
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave. — Dave Grohl
There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag. — Donald Trump
At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else. — Jackie Robinson
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain. — Katharine Lee Bates
I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.' — Jim Leyland
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed. — Lyle Lovett
America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be! — Langston Hughes
God bless America, land that I love. — Irving Berlin
Short National Anthem Quotes
- They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. — Audie Murphy
- The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope. — John Philip Sousa
- Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave. — William Shakespeare
- Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. — John Dickinson
- On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! — Thomas William Parsons
- The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. — Alexander Hamilton
- In God we trust, the game is all us. Til the sky calls or its flames on us. — Pusha T
Singing The National Anthem Quotes
I like traditions, and the national anthem is important. — Kate Mara
'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby. — Carrie Underwood
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem. — Harry Sinden
New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle. — Joseph C. Lincoln
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement. — Hannah Kearney
The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect. — Jeffrey Osborne
The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered. — Johnny Carson
I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python. — Lana Del Rey
Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being. — Bryant H. McGill
National Flag Quotes
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. — Arundhati Roy
We are confident in the role of the UAE's ambitious youth, and we believe in their abilities to create the country's present and future. We always aim to qualify, motivate and empower them to take the nation's flag and carry it to our supreme glory. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. — Pauline Hanson
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. — John Thune
It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation — Carl Sagan
Nationalism is just racism with a flag. — Peter Joseph
The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world. — Enos Mills
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. — Stephen Harper
Pledge Of Allegiance Quotes
With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? — Jay Leno
Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? — David Letterman
And what a bizarre time we're in, Jan, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it. — Michele Bachmann
I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you’re standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance'. And I did all that just like bam, you know? — Tre Cool
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. — Phyllis Schlafly
The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand? — Patricia Schroeder
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. — Barack Obama
A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God — Huston Smith
...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for. — Shane Claiborne
Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.' — Ann Coulter
People Writing About National Anthem
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Irving Berlin |
43 | 1161 |
 Bill Belichick |
61 | 3473 |
 George M. Cohan |
11 | 168 |
 Gerald Stanley Lee |
26 | 76 |
 Dave Grohl |
180 | 813 |
 Donald Trump |
3420 | 6584 |
More National Anthem Quotes
The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way." — Peter Kreeft
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power. — Howard Zinn
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. — Ira Glasser
[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical. — George Orwell
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate. — Tony Kushner
And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you. — Michael Phelps
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles. — Laurie Colwin
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security. — Ezra Taft Benson
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered. — Lee Greenwood
I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans. — Robert Klein
[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem. — Humphrey Bogart
The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod? — Daniel Tosh
I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask. — Ronald Reagan
... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it. — Mike Harding
Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit." — Bill Bailey
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized. — Aldo Leopold
You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind. — Jeff Foxworthy
It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem. — Hristo Stoichkov
...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. — Howard Zinn
Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem. — Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring. — Billy Connolly
There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth. — Voula Patoulidou
And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems. — Brian Moore
In my head I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, Damn, that's a pop song! I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people. Right up until then, though, I think, "Of course everybody feels this way. This song's the same as the Greek national anthem." — M.I.A.
I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it! — Samantha Bee
I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic. — Charlie Brooker
I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]." — Charlie Brooker
I'm very excited to once again perform the National Anthem at Michigan International Speedway for the GFS Marketplace 400. The fans at MIS have always been great to me and it is always an honor to perform for them, whether it's a concert or the National Anthem. — Julie Roberts
At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl. — Diana DeGarmo
When I first heard the song Don't worry - be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first. — George Carlin
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