@ Dick: if what you say is true please quote a source. Not that I doubt you, I just like to verify. As for Madison's quote, it is the epitome of what the wealthy believe and they use it to great end. They control the means of production and effectively control the minds of the middle class into pursuing what is only a limited resource - property. The wealthy take from the poor and middle class in that they live off of the labor of those classes [paying barely subsistence wages.] They control the banking system that owns the mortgages of those lower classes, keeping them locked into perpetual debt. They conscript labor both for industry and war, while avoiding getting their hands dirty by being on the front lines of any struggle other than the competitive struggle of who controls more wealth. The corporations the rich control pollute the planet and persecute those who stand in their way. The wealthy somehow believe that, because they are wealthy they are better. They may be but only in one way - they are better at getting rich. When there is only so much of a resource, there is only so much that can be distributed. Last they control not just the means of production, they control the rule making that governs that production through organizations like the Chamber of Commerce and the American Legislative Exchange Council as well as the US government - among others.