A Quote by Helen Gahagan Douglas

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

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American Glory Old Old Glory Prove Waving

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Helen Gahagan Douglas
American - Actress
November 25, 1900 - June 28, 1980

Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

P. J. O'Rourke

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

Jim Morrison

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

Jeff Miller

American Girls and American Guys We'll always stand up and salute We'll always recognize When we see Old Glory Flying There's a lot of men dead So we can sleep in peace at night When we lay down our head.

Toby Keith

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Alan Watts

[Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

Mark Shields

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

John Wayne

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Mary Tyler Moore

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

Ann Coulter

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

Freeman Dyson

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.

Bill Ayers

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Ernie Harwell

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

William Osler

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.