Leo Tolstoy Quote on the Nature of Governments T-Shirt

Great Russian author and philosopher Count Leo Tolstoy said this about governments: "Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." Surrounded by sycophants and associating only with one another, they formerly believed that they were an elite meritocracy. The Town Hall Meetings and Tea Parties are kind of straightening them out on that accord. They're finding out that they are probably one tenuous bodyguard away from being lynched by their own angry constituents. Illustrated by a painting of Tolstoy by the great Russian painter Ilya Repin. Repin painted Tolstoy a number of times.