Teddy Roosevelt: “Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself.”

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 wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

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

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