Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Never before in our history or in the history of any other nation has a people enjoyed more abounding material prosperity than is ours;

We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grace and not of destruc...

Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and happiness.

by virtue of the power in me vested by said Act of Congress and by virtue of said agreement, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that...