Quote from James Madison 

"It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated."

Quote by:
James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source:
Speech at the Virginia Convention, December 2, 1829
 
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