Teddy Roosevelt: “That sort of kindness is a curse for those for whom it is nominally exercised.”

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

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.