And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Those Romans...
Called the Patrician Torlonia, is a marble bust, said to portray Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius. It is a copy of a Tiberian era bust (1st century AD), itself thought to be a copy of an original dating from around 80 - 70 BC.
Called a bad ass where I come from.
ReplyDeleteShared this before, a attempt to make statues real of Romans
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And
https://youtu.be/fBu2XpZALE0
Looks like a boss I worked for just after HS (many moon ago, Grasshopper). In fact, it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
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