Teddy Roosevelt: “I want to congratulate you on the enterprise and forethought you have shown in your irrigation scheme here.”

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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 have just been shot.

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