As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.
ATTRIBUTION:
William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. John Withers, “The Administrative Practices of William Howard Taft.” p. 44, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago (1956).
