Teddy Roosevelt: “If sympathy becomes distorted and morbid, it hampers instead of helping the effort toward social betterment.”

Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

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

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.