The conditions which have told for our marvelous material well-being, which have developed to a very high degree our energy, self-reliance, and individual initiative, have also brought the care and anxiety inseparable from the accumulation of great wealth in industrial centres.
Roosevelt acknowledges the dual nature of industrial growth, bringing both prosperity and anxiety.
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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