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  • I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

    "'It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose': The Leader and The Cause". Theodore Roosevelt's address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, given a few minutes after getting shot by some anarchist, www.businessinsider.com. October 14, 1912.
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