Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. ... This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.” ~ James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US PresidentSource: Essay entitled Property, published March 27, 1792 in the NATIONAL GAZETTE, andreprinted in THE PAPERS OF JAMES MADISON, Vol. 14, p. 266 (University of Virginia Press 1982).