Ornery scholars disagree on the role of Betsy Ross in the making of the first American flag. But we can all agree on one thing: whoever came up with this design is also responsible for one of the greatest things in the world: flag bikinis. What looks better than a woman wearing our stars and stripes? Nothing, not this weekend anyway. In celebration of our nation's founding, we've paired some of the best flag wearing women on Instagram with some of the most inspiring quotes about This Land.

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"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot." ~Gary Hart

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"What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it." ~Hubert H. Humphrey.

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"How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy." ~Paul Sweeney

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"If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace." ~Hamilton Fish

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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world." ~Woodrow Wilson

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"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in." ~Theodore Roosevelt

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"It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations." ~Henry Cabot Lodge

"I believe in America because we have great dreams and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ~Wendell L. Wilkie

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"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." ~William J. Clinton

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"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may." ~Mark Twain

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"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution." ~John F. Kennedy

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"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." ~Calvin Coolidge

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"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." ~Sinclair Lewis

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"May I never wake up from the American dream." ~Carrie Latet

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