“I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would…”

“I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.”

— Barack Obama

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Title: Wikiquote: Barack Obama
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Context

Voting against a Flag Desecration Amendment (2006), as quoted in "The Constitution, Designed to Change, Rarely Does" (4 December 2008), by Jennifer S. Forsyth, The Wall Street Journal

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Obama, Barack. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Barack Obama. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

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