I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.