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The things that will destroy america are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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The Things That Will Destroy America Are

Theodore Roosevelt
The things that will destroy america are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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Everything is un-american that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. to divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-american. all privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-american-both of them equally so. the things that will destroy america are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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