Quotes About Francis Scott Key

While I fundamentally reject the notion that anyone who owned other human beings was either good, moral, or decent, Francis Scott Key left absolutely no doubt that he was a stone-cold bigot. He came from generations of plantation-owning bigots. They got wealthy off of it.

A thorough survey of Randolph's reading defeats such an effort. The Virginian had, certainly, a lively interest in the writers of his day, but his admiration for the Romantics was strictly qualified, as his correspondence with Francis Walker Gilmer, Brockenbrough, Francis Scott Key, and Josiah Quincy shows.

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.

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