Teddy Roosevelt: “If we fail to show forethought and preparation now, there may come a time when disaster will befall us instead of…”

“If we fail to show forethought and preparation now, there may come a time when disaster will befall us instead of triumph; and should this time come, the fault will rest primarily, not upon those whom the accident of events puts in supreme command at the moment, but upon those who have failed to prepare in advance.”