The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
James MadisonThe safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
James MadisonWe are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.
James Madison