| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37392 |
| QUOTATION: | 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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