Teddy Roosevelt: “You stand for academic freedom, for the right of private judgment, for the duty, more incumbent upon the scholar than…”

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

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

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.