This well-being is due to no sudden or accidental causes, but to the play of the economic forces in this country for over a century; to our laws, our sustained and continuous policies; above all, to the high individual average of our citizenship.
Roosevelt attributes the nation's well-being to long-term economic forces and the quality of its citizens.
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