Teddy Roosevelt: “Our peculiar form of government, with its sharp division of authority between the Nation and the several States, has…”

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

I have just been shot.

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

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