Francis Scott Key Quotes

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.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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?

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