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;

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

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.