Quote of the Day
"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, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own."
-- James Madison (Essay on Property, 29 March 1792)
Reference: Madison: Writings, Rakove, ed., Library of America (515)