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“We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.”

Knows Different Sea Ships Boards Fishing Flags Twelve Vessel Ships At Sea

Author:Claude Martin

“Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.”

May Age Sea Fronts Tradition Tasks Fortune Affection British Glorious Empires Flags Foe Torches Endeavour British Empire Unbroken Hold Fast Vicissitudes

Book:Foreign & Colonial Speeches

Source: Foreign & Colonial Speeches

“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

“With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.”

Men Firsts Kind Different Black Race Knowledge Sea Weapons First Time Philosophical Flags Heroism Pirate Armor Different Races High Seas

Author:Stefan Zweig

“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

“If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.”

Ifs Country Air Sea Land Tears Symbols Flags Unpatriotic Land And Sea

Author:Ralph Nader

“Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.”

Littles Country Together Hate Three Language Hours Sea Century Europe Standing Window Train Shoulders Chains Stations Flags Crushed Passengers Rush Hour National Language

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.”

Long Stars Sea Battle Long Time Slavery Symbols Flags Stripes Confederate American Flag Slave Trade High Seas

Author:Alan Keyes