Special Message
12/18/1906
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Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.
I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.