- “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.”
James Madison – National Gazette, March 1792
You may also like
“If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it […]
“If your Christian conversion did not reverse the direction of your life, if it did not transform it, then you’re not converted […]
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” Thomas Jefferson
“The only greater [evil] than separation… [is] living under a government of discretion.” Thomas Jefferson – to William Gordon, 1826.