Government Quote by James Madison

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

The rights of persons, and therights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of…

— James Madison

In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of…

— James Madison

[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners…

— Murray Rothbard

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of…

— James Madison

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

— George Washington

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

— Thomas Jefferson

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

— Calvin Coolidge

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

— Thomas Jefferson