“The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender.”
On Michigan State's flag-planting, as attributed by John Walters, "Cool Hand on the remote" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/john_walters/09/18/campus.blitz/1.html, Sports Illustrated.com, 19 September 2005 <br class="br">Attributed
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Fabian Picardo (1972) Gibraltarian politician and barrister
[11 September 2013, We will never concede one drop of our waters to Spain, pledged Picardo on Gibraltar Day, http://en.mercopress.com/2013/09/11/we-will-never-concede-one-drop-of-our-waters-to-spain-pledged-picardo-on-gibraltar-day, MercoPress, 22 March 2014]
Speech to crowds in Casemates Square on Gibraltar National Day 2015.
2013
“There'll be no white flags, and no peace talk.”
50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer
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Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
“A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107352 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Variant: A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
“So we arrived, and planted our flag at the geographical South Pole. Thanks be to God!”
Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the South Pole
A quote also displayed at the geographical South Pole.
William McKinley (1843–1901) American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901)
Quoted from July 12, 1900, on 1900 US campaign poster, of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt.
1900s
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
La Lotta di Classe (1910), while a socialist, paraphrasing French socialist Gustave Hervé, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro
Variant translation: The national flag is a rag that should be placed in a dunghill.
As quoted in Aspects of European History, 1789-1980 (1988) by Stephen J. Lee, p. 191
1910s
