Teddy Roosevelt: “The foes from whom we should pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there…”

I have just been shot.

I congratulate you thereon.

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.

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