In other words, I feel that material interests are chiefly good, not in themselves, but as an indispensable foundation upon which we should build a higher superstructure, a superstructure without which the foundation becomes worthless.
He believes that material interests should serve as a foundation for higher moral values.
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the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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