Teddy Roosevelt: “It was a decision nominally against National rights, but really against popular rights, against the democratic principle…”

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

I have just been shot.

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

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.