Quote by Gary Ackerman

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democra

Summary

This quote highlights that the act of flag burning by an individual should not be considered a direct threat to the nation or its foundational values. It suggests that while some individuals may engage in such actions out of disregard or disrespect, the underlying principles of democracy and freedom should remain unshaken. Essentially, it implies that the strength of a nation and its ideals should not be fragile enough to be threatened by the actions of a single person, even if they are offensive or objectionable.

Topics

Freedom

By Gary Ackerman

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophist

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Robert Doisneau

Imagination

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Sad

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of po

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

James Anthony Froude

Positive

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover b

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard

Life

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Reality

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Albert Einstein

Life Success People Man Curses

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Dad

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we a

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Work

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

JeanPaul Sartre

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Kareem AbdulJabbar

Mind

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem. If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

Science Action