What was the inspiration for the Statue of Liberty?

Answer 1

Freedom for all most importantly the liberation of woman, who is allowed a little movement, (3 inches) still manacled today to her role as a true protector of mankind and producer of children -We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ...

- Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson, 1776.

"Those who won our Independence believed Liberty to be the secret of Happiness and Courage to be the secret of Liberty."

- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice 1856-1941

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

- George Orwell, 1945

"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Answer 2

The Statue of Liberty was proposed at a dinner party in Versaille, France. The attendees were elated over the end of the US Civil War and the end of slavery in the US. They wanted to honor the bond between France and the United States.