Respectfully submitted for the modern American's consideration...
Thanks for the ping, Sam.
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
Respectfully resubmitted to Theodore Roosevelt:
It was the self-interest and greed of the likes of J.P. Morgan and his partners that financed your two presidential runs, the second of which, thankfully, failed.
Roosevelt's well-financed moralizing aside, great American self-interest means greed, yes, but it also means loyalty and duty. Self-interest is the very nature of an American patriot.
America: First in War, First in Peace, First on Wall Street.