Teddy Roosevelt: “Do not hit at all if you can help it, but never hit soft.”

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

I have just been shot.

I congratulate you thereon.

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.