Quotes About Francis Scott Key

#1. Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

Ronald Reagan

#2. Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#3. The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

Lee Greenwood

#4. Women are from Mars, men have a penis

Gene Simmons

#5. Prophesying is lying professionally.

Thomas Paine

#6. The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

Francis Scott Key

#7. He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.

Francis Scott Key

#8. Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

Francis Scott Key

#9. Most big life events are like that. You think they'll be emotionally one-sided, but when you actually get into them, it's always more complex. - Nathan

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#10. Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Arthur Golden

#11. Vatican II declares the Church ... as necessary for salvation.

Francis Arinze

#12. May I always hear that you are following the guidance of that blessed Spirit that will lead you into all truth, leaning on that Almighty arm that has been extended to deliver you, trusting only in the only Savior, and going on in your way to Him rejoicing.

Francis Scott Key

#13. My countrymen, we hold a rich deposit in trust for ourselves and for all our brethren of mankind. It is the fire of liberty. If it becomes extinguished, our darkened land will cast a mournful shadow over the nations. If it lives, its blaze will enlighten and gladden the whole earth.

Francis Scott Key

#14. I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?

Francis Scott Key

#15. Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

Francis Scott Key

#16. Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: "ontic anxiety" is the fear of fate and death. The second is "moral anxiety," from guilt, or condemnation. The third is "spiritual anxiety," prompted by an empty life, without direction or meaning.

Caitlin Moran