Teddy Roosevelt: “I have accepted your kind and generous invitation to come before you this evening.”

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 absorbed in the success of that movement.

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.