Famous quotes containing the words flag and/or burning:
“Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)