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 other inheritors of other things of great value, they have a du..."

"Today they are not only works of art."

"The true collectors are the collectors who understand this."

"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 inherited tradition of the arts."