Teddy Roosevelt: “As a Nation we have always been shortsighted in providing for the efficiency of the Army in time of peace.”

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.

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.