Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. T
  4. Theodore Roosevelt
  5. I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know...

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
Badass, Bad Ass, Gentleman
"The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life" by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.
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.