Teddy Roosevelt: “Upon your success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much of the future of mankind as a whole.”

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

I have just been shot.

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

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.