The plaque represents the statue's message of hope for people seeking freedom.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Cohabitation offers people a lot more flexibility and freedom, but that's the downside of it too, looking at it from a more relational -- and particularly from a child's -- perspective."

VOA: special.2011.05.23

We look to the other side of the ocean to learn how a people which has known how to make itself free, knows how to preserve its freedom. " The assassination of Abraham Lincoln touched the imagination of America's writers.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

"Let the Iranian women, who are a very courageous group of people, voice their thirst for equality,for freedom."

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

The report says there has been no change in the extremely poor level of respect for religious freedom in North Korea,where some of the as many as 200,000 people held in political prison camps are reportedly there for religious reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26