On this date in 1777 the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Francis Hopkinson-designed Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
They flag may call upon us again for protection, and when it does, the response will be the same; but bear in mind, that if the citizens protect the flag, the flag must protect the citizens. Wherever any American goes legally and observing the law, there the flag goes with him, and there it must ever go. We cannot afford as a nation to allow the humblest citizen among us to suffer in any way wrong or injustice.
The flag stands for all that we hold dear, freedom, democracy, government of the people, by the people, and for the people. These are the great principles for which the flag stands.
Henry Cabot Lodge, "What the Flag Means," October 1915
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