land of the free

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the land of the free

  1. (poetic) The United States of America.
    • 1814, Francis Scott Key, The Defence of Fort McHenry:
      O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, / O'er the land of the Free, and the home of the brave?
    • 1839 April, “Italian Historians”, in The North American Review, volume 48, number 103, page 330:
      […] nowhere but in America could a liberty, so easily acquired, be so easily maintained. Since that time, Heaven has smiled incessantly on the land of the free.
    • 1954, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”, Grant Sherman Henry, Thomas W. Blackburn (lyrics), George Bruns (music), performed by The Wellingtons:
      Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee / Greenest state in the land of the free
    • 2004, “We're All To Blame”, in Chuck, performed by Sum 41, Island Records:
      How can we still succeed taking what we don't need? / Telling lies, alibis, selling all the hate that we breed / Supersize our tragedies / Bought in the land of the free

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