Hat Tip: Jay Elliott

“…the end of all government is the good and ease of the people, in a secure enjoyment of their rights”; but it must be remembered, that the rich are people as well as the poor; that they have rights as well as others; that they have as clear a right to their large property as others have to theirs which is smaller; that oppression to them is as possible and as wicked as to others. John Adams

MAKERS OF THE AMERICAN MIND, by Robert C. Whitmore, pp 131-32