Teddy Roosevelt: “It has done enormous harm, it is no longer needed, and it should be repealed.”

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

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

I have just been shot.

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.