Quote#Freedom
You may name a bronze statue Liberty, or a painted figure in a city…
Quote byGeorge Edward Woodberry · 1855–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913 (Merrymount Press, 1914), p. 20.
English (original)
You may name a bronze statue Liberty, or a painted figure in a city hall Commerce, or a marble form in a temple Athene or Venus; but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.
— George Edward Woodberry
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