“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

—  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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