" The liberty we have in Bartholdi's statue is truly typical of liberty in this age and country. It is placed upon a pedestal out of the reach of the multitudes; it can only be approached by those who have money enough to pay the expense; it has a lamp to enlighten the world, but the lamp is never lit, and it smiles upon us as we approach America, but when we are once in the country we never see anything but its back. 'Tis a great world we live in. "

― James Connolly