Teddy Roosevelt: “We neither claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to every American Republic.”

I congratulate you thereon.

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

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.