Message to Congress
05/11/1902
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.
I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.
The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.