Teddy Roosevelt: “So far from asking that you be lenient in your judgment of any public man, I hold that you are recreant to duty if you…”

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

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

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

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…