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“I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales”

Should Believe I Believe Nations United Four England Unions Kingdoms Flags Ireland Scotland Wales United Kingdom Northern Ireland

Author:Ian Lucas

“Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.”

Army England Woods Swim Flags

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.”

Littles Tree Sea England Flags Palms Lone Isle Palm Trees

Book:Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

Source: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

“On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.”

“The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.”

Night Stars Peace Danger Return England Flags Terrific Meteors

Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!”

Years Sea Battle Thousand England Native Flags Thousand Years Breeze Mariners

Book:The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

“I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. (said at Stamford Bridge)”

Knows Should Said Helping Should Have England Plenty Bridges Flags

Author:Ron Atkinson

“I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.”

Looks Different Would Be Imagine England China Lists Ships Flags Encyclopedia Denmark

Author:George R. R. Martin

“The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.”

England Flags Royal Royal Family

Author:Steven Morrissey

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source: Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts