If we make it the only ideal before this Nation, if we permit the people of this Republic to get before their minds the view that material well-being carried to an ever higher degree is the one and only thing to be striven for, we are laying up for ourselves not merely trouble but ruin.
Roosevelt cautions that prioritizing material well-being above all else can lead to national trouble and ruin.
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