Remarks in Walla Walla, Washington
05/24/1903
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.
I am not sick at all. I am all right.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...