Teddy Roosevelt: “To retrace our steps would be to give proof of an infirm and unstable national purpose.”

Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.

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

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…

I have just been shot.