Theodore Roosevelt: It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard t

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of succes — Theodore Roosevelt

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Theodore Roosevelt

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