Teddy Roosevelt: “I have striven to break up peonage; I have upheld the hands of those who, like Judge Jones and Judge Speer, have warred…”

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

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.

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