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If the men who hoisted the “Bear Flag” had raised the flag that…
Quote byMariano Guadalupe Vallejo · 1807–1890
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Historical and Personal Memoirs Relating to Alta California (1875), As quoted by George Mason University's History Matters: “More Like A Pig Than a Bear”: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Is Taken Prisoner During the Bear Flag Revolt, 1846.
English (original)
if the men who hoisted the “Bear Flag” had raised the flag that Washington sanctified by his abnegation and patriotism, there would have been no war on the Sonoma frontier, for all our minds were prepared to give a brotherly embrace to the sons of the Great Republic, whose enterprising spirit had filled us with admiration.
— Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
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