Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life.

That life is wasted, and worse than wasted, which is spent in piling, heap upon heap, those things which minister merely to the pleasure of ...

Year by year this Nation grows in strength and worldly power.

Nowhere else in the world is the average of individual comfort and material well-being as high as in our fortunate land.