Teddy Roosevelt: “It always irritates me to see any member of a National Guard armed with a black powder musket.”

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