If we do not plan today for the future growth of these and other great natural assets--not only parks and forests but wildlife and wilderness preserves, and water projects of all kinds--our children and their children will be poorer in every sense of the word.
Kennedy warns that failing to plan for the future of natural assets will leave future generations poorer.
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But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.
For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.
If we move decisively, our factories and farms can increase their sales to their richest, fastest-growing market.
For you and I are privileged to serve the great Republic in what could be the most decisive decade in its long history.