"For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?"
— Freedom

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Boston," stanza 15, The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2, p. 897 (1929). These words were also inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty