Teddy Roosevelt: “Woe to us as a nation if we ever follow the lead of men who seek not to smother but to inflame the wild-beast qualities…”

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

I have just been shot.

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.