Teddy Roosevelt: “Moreover, no such law would hamper an unscrupulous man of unlimited means from buying his own way into office.”

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.

I congratulate you thereon.

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