Teddy Roosevelt: “Where the individuals and associations of individuals cannot preserve them, the State, and, if necessary, the nation…”

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.

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

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