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"A state which dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands, even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."--John Stuart Mill on the folly of belittling men.
1956 Richard Kozlow Born: Detroit, Michigan 1926 brush and ink, watercolor, gouache and pen and ink on paperboard sheet: 19 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (48.5 x 39.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.163 Not currently on view
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"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."--Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu, 1933. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1955 George Giusti Born: Milan, Italy 1908 Died: 1990 India ink and gouache on paper sheet: 24 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (62.1 x 46.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.107 Not currently on view
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"Civilization must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity."--Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana, 1914. From the series
1961 Robert Osborn Born: Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1904 Died: Salisbury, Connecticut 1994 conte crayon and ink on paper sheet: 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (38.6 x 32.0 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.232 Not currently on view
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"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."--Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1963 Jose Luis Cuevas Born: Mexico City, Mexico 1934 ink, colored ink, conte crayon and colored pencil on paper mounted on paperboard sheet: 22 1/8 x 25 3/4 in. (56.1 x 65.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.73 Not currently on view
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"Dr. South, Locke, Sherlock, Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Sutton", from Illustrations to the songs from William Blake's "Island in the Moon"
1945 Charles Seliger Born: New York, New York 1926 white ink on black ink on paper sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Michael Rosenfeld 1992.53.7 Not currently on view
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"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.."--Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1791. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1957 Milton Glaser Born: New York, New York 1929 India ink, gouache, watercolor, and varnish on paperboard mounted on paperboard sheet: 19 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (50.3 x 47.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.108 Not currently on view
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"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue does not come from money,
1952 Joseph Low Born: Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 1911 Died: Edgartown, Massachusetts 2007 gouache and pencil on paper mounted on paperboard sheet: 16 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (42.5 x 37.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.193 Not currently on view
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"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in
1950 Arthur Williams Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1917 pencil and watercolor on paperboard sheet: 17 3/4 x 14 in. (45.1 x 35.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.305 Not currently on view
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"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841. From
1964 Pedro Friedeberg Born: Florence, Italy 1937 India ink, watercolor, colored ink, pencil, and opaque white on paper mounted on paperboard sheet: 18 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. (47.5 x 36.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.95 Not currently on view
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"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part."--James Madison, the Federalist Papers, 1788. From the series Great
1965 George Ortman Born: Oakland, California 1926 pencil on paper sheet: 18 x 23 7/8 in. (45.8 x 60.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.231 Not currently on view