Teddy Roosevelt: “The time of peace is the time when we must make ready for war, should war come.”

I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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