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I too am a government.

Gustave Courbet / Painter
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I too am a government.

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Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Gustave Courbet Painter

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Gustave Courbet Painter

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Gustave Courbet Painter

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

Gustave Courbet Painter

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Andy Stern Business Person

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

Mitch Albom Author

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

Howard Zinn Historian

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

Ho Chi Minh Political Leader

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President

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