Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Let's try to get rid of them, but let's show common sense in the effort.

Prosperity by itself never made any man happy.

To you alone it was given to face with victorious valor the one crisis in which not merely the nation's welfare but the nation's life was at...

Evils have come through our very prosperity, but in warring against the evil let us be exceeding careful not to war against the prosperity.