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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” From Emma Lazarus’s tribute to the Statue of Liberty, these words have become the call to the people of the world to find hope and freedom in America.

French politician and writer Édouard René de Laboulaye was one of the first to suggest giving America a gift to mark the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi designed the sculpture and Gustave Eiffel designed the iron pylon and skeletal framework of the statue.

“It means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known – the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.” This quote from Henry Ward Beecher displays the pride that so many Americans feel when it comes to their flag.