Teddy Roosevelt: “The policy of giving not to the State but to the National government an increased supervisory and regulatory power over…”

I have just been shot.

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 am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

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.