Original Bear Flag

Famous quotes containing the words original, bear and/or flag:

    “We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
    Here once the embattled farmers stood
    And fired the shot heard round the world.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)