Teddy Roosevelt: “To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some…”

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

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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.