Teddy Roosevelt: “One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards.”

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.

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.