Teddy Roosevelt: “It is upon your interpretation of the acts done here that we must depend for having these acts received at the proper…”

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

I have just been shot.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

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.