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the land of the free
- (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
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