Teddy Roosevelt: “If our navy is good enough, we have a long career of peace before us.”

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

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

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

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.