She gave a hat--the only one she managed to take with her on her flight from Switzerland--to her stewardess.
The statue of Liberty never looked so beautiful to a party of Americans before.

The strains of the Star Spangled Banner, as they echoed over the waters of the bay, were never sweeter nor more inspiring.

As the Philadelphia approached quarrantine, the notes of the American anthem swelled until, as she slowed down to await the coming of the physicians and customs officials, it rose to a great crescendo which fell upon the ears of all within many hundred yards and brought an answering chorus from the throngs who waited to extend their hands to relatives and friends.
There was prophecy in the minds of men and women aboard that ship.

Some of them had been brought into actual contact with the war; others very near it.

In the minds of all was the vision that liberty, enlightenment and all the fruits of progress were threatened; that if they were to be saved, somehow, this land typified the spirit of succor; somehow the aid was to proceed from here.
Liberty never had a more cherished meaning to men of this Republic.