Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

You need various qualities to make a State great, a nation great.

But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most pleased with is you yourse...

The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; ...

Instead of the life of ease I preach to all worthy to be called men, the life of work, the life of endeavor.