Teddy Roosevelt: “Moreover, there can be no reciprocity unless there is a substantial tariff; free trade and reciprocity are not…”

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.

Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.

I have just been shot.