WHERE QUOTATION MARKS GO:

OUTSIDE of commas and periods:

                …refers to our enemies as “hirelings” and “slaves,” and declares…

                …repeated emphasis on the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”

 

 

INSIDE of colons and semicolons:

                …refers to our enemies as “hirelings” and “slaves”; the anthem declares…

 

 

AROUND the titles of short works (like anthems or poems or short stories or essays):

                “The Star-Spangled Banner”

                “Advance Australia Fair”

Note that you DO NOT ITALICIZE TITLES OF SHORT WORKS.  Use italics for the titles of book-length works or paintings:

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

Guernica, by Pablo Picasso