Government Quote by James Madison

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

— James Madison

Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so…

— James Madison

“[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”

— James Madison

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

— Anna Quindlen

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late…

— Anais Nin

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

“As James Madison put it, the nation ought to be constituted “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”

— Anonymous

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions…

— Ayn Rand

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

— John O. Brennan

Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has…

— James Williams

The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want;…

— Ron Paul

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

— Anonymous

The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of…

— Stephen Harper

“waned. Efforts to protect civilian life fell by the wayside and a fourth and final grim phase of nuclear reality settled over the United…

— Garrett M. Graff

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the…

— Ezra Taft Benson