Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

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; ...

We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.

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