Teddy Roosevelt: “We need a thousand additional officers in order to properly man the ships now provided for and under construction.”

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

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

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.

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