<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Flags - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16145]]></link><description><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"   It made and preserves us a nation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And half a world away!    Rose-red and blood-red     The stripes forever gleam;      Snow-white and soul-white--       The good forefathers' dream;        Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--         The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16148]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16139]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,--  The streaming red, the deeper blue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16140]]></link><description><![CDATA[England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,--  The streaming red, the deeper blue,   Crossed with the moonbeams' pearly white?    The blood, the bruise--the blue, the red--     Let Asia's groaning millions speak;      The white it tells of colour fled       From starving Erin's pallid cheek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under spreading ensigns moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under spreading ensigns moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The battle and the breeze!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, and every star,   Displayed in full and glorious manner!    Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying!     Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16130]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air,  She tore the azure robe of night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16131]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air,  She tore the azure robe of night,   And set the stars of glory there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;   And all thy hues were born in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to see   That banner in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms,   The lightning and the gale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight   O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.      Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,  Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,   O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming;    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there!      Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation!  Blest with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation!  Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land   Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!    Then conquer we must when our cause it is just.     And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!"      And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and story   Long may it wave, old glory    The flag that has never known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash of color beneath the sky:    Hats off!     The flag is passing by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16126]]></link><description><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us of your shame.    Your banner's constellation types     White freedom with its stars,      But what's the meaning of the stripes?       They mean your negroes' scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16126</guid></item></channel></rss>