Teddy Roosevelt: “Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything…”

On the recordOctober 21, 1906

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

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Republican · New York

Source

Proclamation 665—Thanksgiving Day, 1906

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