Teddy Roosevelt: “We need and must and shall have the very best regular army of its size that is to be found anywhere.”

I congratulate you thereon.

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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.

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