Teddy Roosevelt: “The men in the Life Saving Service continually and in the most matter of fact way do deeds such as make Americans proud…”

I have just been shot.

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

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

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.