History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

Life without risks is not worth living.

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

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.