Teddy Roosevelt: “A glorious memory is the best of all things for a nation, if the purpose of that nation is to try to rise level with…”

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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

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.