Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

They accept it for themselves because, in the past few years, they have come to understand that the inheritance is theirs and that, like oth...

I think it signifies a relation—a new relation here made visible in paint and in stone—between the whole people of this country, and the old...

I accept for the people of the United States and on their behalf this National Gallery and the collections it contains.

The true collectors are the collectors who understand this.