"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 (1858-1919) 26th US President Source: letter 01/10/1917 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Theodore.Roosevelt.Quote.70C8 "I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life." -- Theodore Roosevelt/dt "Foolish fanatics ... the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements." -- Popularized in his autobiography, not coined.