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This is Chris Flannery with the Claremont Institute.

I call this one, Liberty for All.

The Statue of Liberty has come to see for all.

The Statue of Liberty has come to seem as much a part of America as the Grand Canyon.

The oldest rocks of the Grand Canyon were formed by forces of nature some 2 billion years ago.

And the Statue of Liberty, a project of mere mortals, has been around only since the end of

the 19th century.

But it came along and suddenly forever became part of the identity of

the country it came into. When the millions of tourists from all over the world

come to the south rim of the Grand Canyon,

they are immediately struck with the natural wonder before them.

The visual revelation inspires awe and meditative silence.

When the millions of immigrants came on ships into New York Harbor in the decades after

the Statue of Liberty was erected, they were struck by the human wonder the statue represented.

As Frank Capra's illiterate Sicilian peasant father said to his six-year-old son when they arrived

in 1903 and looked up at the great lady lifting

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