Teddy Roosevelt: “Let me say one word of special greeting to the veterans of the Grand Army.”

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

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

I have just been shot.