"I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either."
"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 deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me."
"One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people."
"I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference."
"Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convent..."
"I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the peo..."
"No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life."
"I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present."
"I stand for the square deal."