“First of all, I want to say this about myself: I have altogether too important things to think of to feel any concern over my own death; and now I cannot speak to you insincerely within five minutes of being shot. I am telling you the literal truth when I say that my concern is for many other things.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

1910s, Address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912)

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American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858–1919

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