A Measure of Well-being

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.

My fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giver of Good who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of well-being and of happiness.

President Theodore Roosevelt
March 4th, 1905
Inaugural Address