Remarks in Nahant, Massachusetts
08/24/1902
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.
Don’t you pity me. I am all right.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.