Teddy Roosevelt: “One thing that, as President of this country, I won't do, is to make a bluff that I can't make good.”

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.

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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