Teddy Roosevelt: “Through the Monroe Doctrine we hope to be able to safeguard like independence and secure like permanence for the lesser…”

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

I have just been shot.

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.