“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.”

“The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.”

“Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.”

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

“In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous!”

“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”