One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

We are all consumers and should all be producers.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.