Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just. And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


Francis Scott Key

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI
Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...
JULIE ANDREWS
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM
The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE

More Francis Scott Key

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the p...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as sh...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of th...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gle...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gl...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling an...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and sl...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
The Star Spangled Banner
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
To Anacreon in Heaven.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the p...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Was I the only one who became unsettled and swoonish at the sight of a large, inverted carcass hangi...
HARRISON SCOTT KEY
Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It cert...
WATT KEY
Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
WATT KEY
I'm no Thoreau.
WATT KEY
I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to...
WATT KEY
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your he...
WATT KEY
I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a...
WATT KEY
Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they ...
WATT KEY
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must a...
ELLEN KEY
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means...
ELLEN KEY
All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offeri...
ELLEN KEY
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec...
ELLEN KEY
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, a...
ELLEN KEY
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they ju...
JOHN KEY
No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for th...
ELLEN KEY
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing ...
ELLEN KEY
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future...
ELLEN KEY
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the i...
ELLEN KEY
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the confli...
ELLEN KEY
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their ...
ELLEN KEY
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
ELLEN KEY
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rej...
ELLEN KEY
In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child br...
ELLEN KEY
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
ELLEN KEY
It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just ...
ELLEN KEY
Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish ...
ELLEN KEY
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in a...
ELLEN KEY
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is i...
ELLEN KEY
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between...
ELLEN KEY
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
ELLEN KEY
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others...
ELLEN KEY
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
ELLEN KEY
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
ELLEN KEY
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the cree...
ELLEN KEY
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries...
ELLEN KEY
I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I...
JOHN KEY
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clerg...
ELLEN KEY
I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arroga...
JOHN KEY
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men co...
ELLEN KEY
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoe...
ELLEN KEY
I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the...
JOHN KEY
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this ...
ELLEN KEY
It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's ap...
ELLEN KEY
I used to think... that people would think badly of me for various stuff they read. But now I accept...
JOHN KEY
I think it is only natural that people have anxiety about the economy because the economy is real. I...
JOHN KEY
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as...
ELLEN KEY
Art, that great undogmatized church.
ELLEN KEY
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to en...
ELLEN KEY
In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhoo...
ELLEN KEY
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
ELLEN KEY
The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent ca...
ELLEN KEY
When an autopsy is done, these three items should be made available to the public. I would argue the...
STEVE KEY
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and ...
ELLEN KEY
That approach is like letting the inmates run the jail. Reviews like this should be done independent...
JOHN KEY
Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people...
JOHN KEY
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathe...
ELLEN KEY
It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. ...
JOHN KEY
The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' ...
ELLEN KEY
Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growt...
ELLEN KEY
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always howe...
ELLEN KEY
I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me...
JOHN KEY
We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to...
ASHLEY KEY
I think over spring break, a lot of us had some time to see our families and get our bodies rested u...
ASHLEY KEY
That concussion knocked some sense into her.
ASHLEY KEY
It's probably a little bit of mixed emotions. As long as we kept our defense there, that would help ...
ASHLEY KEY
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
ELLEN KEY
What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that ...
ELLEN KEY
I've noticed if you're a pug owner, you're pug-crazy.
CRYSTAL KEY
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love
ELLEN KEY
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY
If you don't look for them you won't find them. The razor gang is no longer using a razor, it is usi...
JOHN KEY
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity
ELLEN KEY
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and ...
JOHN KEY
While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a wor...
ELLEN KEY
Sparkle all started around WPF. Four years ago, we started thinking about these concepts. We wanted ...
FOREST KEY
XAML is the key innovation. It's what the tools understand natively.
FOREST KEY
As much as 80 percent of designers focused on Web and interactive design it turns out are on Windows...
FOREST KEY
Sparkle all started around WPF. Four years ago, we started thinking about these concepts. We wanted ...
FOREST KEY
We're breaking down the barriers between designers and developers.
FOREST KEY
How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualificat...
ELLEN KEY
New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.
JOHN KEY
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to a...
ELLEN KEY
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future...
ELLEN KEY
The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism...
ELLEN KEY
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when an...
ELLEN KEY
I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look ea...
JOHN KEY
On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has bee...
ELLEN KEY
The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those th...
ELLEN KEY
The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child b...
ELLEN KEY
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Thr...
ELLEN KEY
Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the n...
ELLEN KEY
Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.
JOHN KEY
Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a rea...
ELLEN KEY
It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rul...
JOHN KEY
Maybe in the past when we said 'everywhere' we didn't really mean everywhere. Now we really mean it....
FORREST KEY
The CTP of Expression Interactive Designer is more akin to an alpha than beta in that it's not featu...
FORREST KEY
What we're doing with Expression is to look at designer/developer interactions and workflow, and the...
FORREST KEY
We are extremely focused on the user experience...broadly in every class of application. We are sayi...
FOREST KEY
Maybe in the past when we said 'everywhere' we didn't really mean everywhere. Now we really mean it....
FOREST KEY
He was down to earth. In 1997 I first started making contact with him. He didn't know me from Adam.....
ERIC KEY
You can go and you can listen and you can really push the buttons for kids to act and go and look at...
ERIC KEY
It may change a little, but hopefully that café won't change.
ERIC KEY
It has the shape of a sailboat, right in line with the architecture of the river and reminiscent of ...
ERIC KEY
I’m hungry as a church mouse, Hope. Do you have anything to eat?

Hope looked dow...
LYN KEY
Hope turned sly. “What if the slice of apple pie is served a la mode?”

Smiling, Peggy...
LYN KEY
Nozy Cat lifted one sleepy eyelid, and his marble blue eye glared at her for interrupting his sacred...
LYN KEY
Drop by their booth at the fair to give an affectionate pet a look-see, and maybe you will not be ab...
KAY KEY
Being a Master Gardener, maybe she will bring some early planters and outdoor decorating items.
KAY KEY
She's been wonderful to work with, and I think our growth over the years pleases her as much as it d...
KAY KEY
You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.
JOHNATHAN KEY
I've always written about 'My girlfriend did this and here's how I feel about it,' or 'I had a fight...
RYAN KEY
If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS
“Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS
Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS
Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS
Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS
Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS
It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
 FRANCIS
Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS
The years I spent pining for her, trying to subtly convince her that I was the man she needed to be ...
CRAIG R. KEY
It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't...
KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, m...
KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the...
KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY
Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does ...
WILSON BRYAN KEY
Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed t...
CRAIG R. KEY
Who isn’t bipolar these days, we all have ups and downs. Life is a continuous whirlwind.
KRISTIAN RELENA KEY
I knew I should have been looking for a job, but just having lost one, I felt kind of unmotivated. D...
CRAIG R. KEY
Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake ...
WILSON BRYAN KEY
Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotiona...
WILSON BRYAN KEY
Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work mo...
CRAIG R. KEY
How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
SCOTT
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I
Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON
Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS
We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS
From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN
I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS
Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY
We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON
There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON