"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"

Swedish Lord High Chancellor Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre, Count of Södermöre, wrote the title quote in a letter to his son, who was unsure of his abilities as a delegate to the negotiations that led to the Peace of Westphalia.

A different point can be made keeping the quote in mind while examining Governor Perry's college transcript.