 | 1902 - 984 páginas
...the blue loyalty, but Washington gave us a »entimeut that Is even grander. Gazing upon it, he said: "We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it bv white stripes, thns showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shull go down... | |
 | 1903 - 1026 páginas
...sentmieui that Is even grander. Gazing upon It, he said: "We take the star from Heaven, the red from bur mother country, separating It by white stripes, thus...we have separated from, her, and the white stripes ahull go down to posterity representing liberty." NOTABLE DAYS IN CONNECTION WITH THE HISTORY OF THE... | |
 | Peleg Dennis Harrison - 1914 - 476 páginas
...grand sentiment on our national flag, which he gave in these words : " We take the star from Heaven,1 the red from our mother country, separating it by...shall go down to posterity representing liberty." It will be noticed that the suggestion expressed elsewhere, that the stripes on the continental Union... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1907 - 868 páginas
...on the Fourth of July next succeeding such admission. Referring to the flag, Washington said of it: "We take the star from heaven, the red from our mother...shall go down to posterity representing Liberty." So it is that the flag that first typified the thirteen new States along the ragged edge of the Atlantic,... | |
 | 1949 - 410 páginas
...first flown at the head of the Continental Army, General George Washington said : "We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating...shall go down to posterity representing liberty." As with a precious gem, the facets of liberty cannot be brought to their greatest brilh'ance without... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1910 - 118 páginas
...Whatever may have been the actual origin of this flag, the sentiment which it has conveyed for 133 years was appropriately expressed by Washington in...the red from our mother country, separating it by w7hite stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 434 páginas
...coat-of-arms is shown by Washington himself, in a grand sentiment on our national flag, which he gave in these words : "We take the star from Heaven, the...shall go down to posterity representing liberty." It will be noticed that the suggestion expressed elsewhere, that the stripes on the continental Union... | |
 | American Clan Gregor Society - 1912 - 534 páginas
...Washington, they containing both the stars and stripes, but the thought is unsupported, for Washington said: "We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother...shall go down to posterity representing liberty." Another popular fallacy regarding the flag pertains to Betsy Ross as maker of the original. There has... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1912 - 856 páginas
...expressly says that they represent a "new constellation." Washington himself is quoted as saying: " We take the star from Heaven; the red from our mother...shall go down to posterity representing liberty." "Now, the " stars " in the Washington coat-of-arms were not celestial stars, but mullets, or spur-rowels,... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1912 - 830 páginas
...1777, expressly says that they represent a "new constellation." Washington himself is quoted as saying: "We take the star from Heaven; the red from our mother...shall go down to posterity representing liberty." INbw, the " stars " in the Washington coat-of-arms were not celestial stars, but mullets, or spur-rowels,... | |
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We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty. 
