Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The chance to do good work is the greatest chance that can come to any man or any woman in our generation or in any other generation.

It is absolutely necessary to earn a certain amount of money.

I do not in the least underestimate the need of having material prosperity as the basis of our civilization.

and finally he crowned his life work by serving as Secretary of State with such farsighted reading of the future and such loyalty to lofty i...