As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.
The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'