Teddy Roosevelt: “People have spoken as if this discharge from the service was a punishment. I deny emphatically that such is the case…”

I have just been shot.

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 am not sick at all. I am all right.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.