A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
ATTRIBUTION:
James Madison (1751–1836), U.S. president. Madison to Thomas Jefferson, October 24, 1787. W.T. Hutchinson et al., The Papers of James Madison, vol. 10, pp. 213-14, Chicago and Charlottesville, Virginia (1962-1991).
