Teddy Roosevelt: “National control of the kind above advocated would be to the benefit of every well-managed railway.”

I have just been shot.

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

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.