Teddy Roosevelt: “I am particularly pleased to greet the Harvard Club of Chicago again under as pleasant circumstances as I have ever had…”

I have just been shot.

I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

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