Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless the average man possesses honesty, courage, common sense, and decency.

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Remarks Before the Mothers' Congress

03/12/1905

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