Monument inscriptions

Monument inscriptions are commonly placed on statues and structures built to commemorate some aspect of the person or event for which the monument stands.

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Quotes

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

On the interior of the Statue of Liberty;
formally titled "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus.

IN THIS TEMPLE
AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION
THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
IS ENSHRINED FOREVER

On the Lincoln Memorial.

ARBEIT MACHT FREI

Translation: "Work makes you free"

On the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

NAKED AND STARVING AS THEY ARE
WE CANNOT ENOUGH ADMIRE
THE INCOMPARABLE PATIENCE AND FIDELITY
OF THE SOLDIERY

On the National Memorial Arch, erected at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1910, quoting George Washington.