We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

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