The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. -Winston Churchill
We have only two modes: complacency and panic. -James R. Schlesinger in 1977 on the country's approach to energy
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. -Benjamin Franklin