Teddy Roosevelt: “Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship.”

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 have just been shot.

I congratulate you thereon.

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