| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 57046 |
| QUOTATION: | 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 p. 44, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago (1956). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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