Song Quote by Dave Barry

“Officer Burroughs couldn’t believe his ears.  The man sang the old song from the foolish rebellion of 125 years ago.  A group of people…

— Janet McNulty

“But the bullet that killed Herbert Lee set off a string of firecrackers that clustered in a single summer, a season so radically different,…

— Bruce Watson

“We cannot shoot our way to justice, We cannot lynch our way to liberty. We cannot nuke our way to peace, We cannot hate…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.”

— Bryant McGill

“When the thousands of people sang the national anthem, with their right hands over their chest, I cried. It was as if we were…

— Michael Patrick MacDonald

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

— Audie Murphy

“It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time memorizing that…

— Terry Pratchett

“It’s all like me; and any song for this would just be bullshit. This is a thing, where they stopped trying, they deserted it,…

— Alice Notley

“The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called "The Liberty…

— M.T. Anderson

Hail to the Chief" was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. "I've been in this office for six…

— Kirk Douglas

“you've got the words to change a nation but your biting your tongue, you've spent a lifetime in silence afraid that you'll say something…

— Emeli Sande

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey