Teddy Roosevelt: “Each must stand on his worth as a man and each is entitled to be judged solely thereby.”

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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.