Government
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensign of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs | A Blue Ensign defaced with the badge of HM Customs and Excise | ||
| 2008 on | Ensign of the UK Border Agency | A Blue Ensign defaced with the badge of the UK Border Agency | |
| Ensign of Her Majesty's Coastguard | A blue ensign defaced with the badge of HM Coastguard | ||
| Ensign of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency | A blue ensign defaced with the badge of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency | ||
| Ensign of the Commissioners of the Northern Lights | A blue ensign defaced with a lighthouse | ||
| Northern Lighthouse Board Commissioners Flag | A White Ensign with a pre-1801 Union Flag in the canton, defaced with a blue lighthouse in the fly, is the only British flag to still use the pre-1801 Union Flag. This flag is only flown from vessels with the Commissioners aboard and from the Headquarters of the NLB, in Edinburgh. | ||
| Ensign of Trinity House | A red ensign defaced with a Trinity House Jack | ||
| Flag of the Metropolitan Police | The Badge of the Metropolitan Police on a blue background, with white squares at the edge |
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.”
—Sojourner Truth (c. 1777–1883)
“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“It does seem strange that the only place in the government which I would have liked to fill myself I am forced to give to another.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
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