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.
Interesting how both statues have their outside (away from the door's centerline) hands broken off. And they're both under what looks like a drain pipe.
Interesting how both statues have their outside (away from the door's centerline) hands broken off. And they're both under what looks like a drain pipe.
ReplyDeleteGive these folks a hand!
ReplyDeleteThe pipes are called "scuppers" and they drain the water off the balcony.
Ah jes hate workin' these little stages, don't you, Guiseppe?
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