We shall therefore continue to act in order to preserve our ability not to act too soon

A Crestignacian principle of public governance whereby governmental action seeks to preserve the ability to postpone action until the conditions for its implementation have been sufficiently stabilised.

It belongs to the theory of Immobile Dynamics and the prevention of Prematurework.

Example — Address to the nation

My dear fellow citizens,

To govern is to anticipate the possibility of action.

Yet every contemplated action already constitutes a result. And no result should ever be undertaken prematurely.

Our responsibility, therefore, is not to act merely to give the impression that we are acting. It is to ensure that, whenever the possibility of action arises, all the necessary conditions are in place for that possibility to be examined with due seriousness.

The absence of results is not necessarily a failure. It may, in fact, be an excellent result when it means that a premature decision has been avoided.

We shall therefore continue to act in order to preserve our ability not to act too soon.

That is what responsible governance means.