Teddy Roosevelt: “What we need is not genius, not brilliancy, but the ordinary commonplace virtues that every man or woman can have, if…”

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

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.

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.