Teddy Roosevelt: “It seems to me that it is true of all of us that our duties are even more important than our rights.”

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

I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.