Teddy Roosevelt: “I want to have it understood, gentlemen, that I do not care anything like as much for how your regiments march and…”

I congratulate you thereon.

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

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.