Quote from James Madison 

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. ...
This being the end of government, that alone is a just government,
which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.

Quote by:
James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source:
Essay entitled Property, published March 27, 1792 in the NATIONAL GAZETTE, and reprinted in THE PAPERS OF JAMES MADISON, Vol. 14, p. 266 (University of Virginia Press 1982).
 
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