The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.

I congratulate you thereon.

I have just been shot.

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.

I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.

One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.

Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.

I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.

A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

We must drive the special interests out of politics.

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

I stand for the square deal.

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.