“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”
“Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.”
“... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship... All things are difficult before they are easy.... ”
“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.”