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
We have only two modes: complacency and panic. -James R. Schlesinger in 1977 on the country's approach to energy
War is the continuation of politics by other means, Politics is the continuation of economics by other means -Carl von Clausewitz