I realize to the full, as every good citizen should realize, that there must be a foundation of material prosperity upon which to build the welfare of State or Nation; but I realize also, as every good citizen should, that material prosperity, material well-being, can never be anything but the foundation.
Roosevelt acknowledges the necessity of material prosperity as a foundation for societal welfare.
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