Teddy Roosevelt: “Macaulay’s eminently sane and wholesome spirit and his knowledge of practical affairs give him a peculiar value among…”

I have just been shot.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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.