Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms...

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

Theda Skocpol

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Never complain and never explain.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert Schuller

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Autonomous state actions will ...