Wallace Statute and Public Library, Aberdeen

This Wallace Statute was erected in 1888 in Aberdeen. It was created by William Grant Stevenson and bears the inscription, "I tell you a truth, liberty is the best of all things, my son, never live under any slavish bond".
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Iconic Scotland
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