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O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming
Francis Scott Key1779–1843The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)In context
- Patriotism
O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
O’er the Land of the free and the home of the brave?
Francis Scott Key1779–1843The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)In context
- Freedom
- Patriotism
What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.
Jimmy Kimmelborn 1967Post-hiatus monologue (23 September 2025)
- Freedom
Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
It is a trite yet urgently true observation that if America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have second-class citizens.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
- Change
Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Freedom
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.
Emma Lazarus1849–1887The New Colossus (1883)In context
- Freedom
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus1849–1887The New Colossus (1883)In context
- Freedom
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book V, Part III, Chapter XII.
Madam, don’t bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans.
Robert E. Lee1807–1870Advice to a Confederate widow who expressed animosity towards the northern U.S. after the end of the American Civil War, as quoted in The Life and Campaigns of General Lee (1875) by Edward Lee Childe, p. 331
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union.
Robert E. Lee1807–1870Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee (23 January 1861).