Blue Ensign Flag

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ensign and/or flag:

    “Little Boy Blue,
    Come blow your horn,”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Little Boy Blue (l. 1–2)

    “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
    Long has it waved on high,
    And many an eye has danced to see
    That banner in the sky;”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
    Eagle with crest of red and gold,
    These men were born to drill and die.
    Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
    Make plain to them the excellence of killing
    And a field where a thousand corpses lie.”
    —Stephen Crane (1871–1900)