Teddy Roosevelt: “To the white population as well as to the black, it is of the utmost importance that the negro be encouraged to make…”

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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

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.