"actually, that isn't even on the statue - it is from an ode to that statue written by a soft-hearted fool."
Nope. It is actually an inscription on the Statue of Liberty.
A giant statue on an island in the harbor of New York City; it depicts a woman representing liberty, raising a torch in her right hand and holding a tablet in her left. At its base is inscribed a poem by Emma Lazarus that contains the lines “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Emma Lazarus, member of the Socialist Party USA.
oh, crap - that nonsense is on the base?
(but, then again: the base was not made by the French - it was paid for and constructed by a consortium of Americans)