Let history answer this question. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't try. In love, a man is victorious only when he runs away. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.