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...

Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life in accordance with the laws of the highest moral...

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