The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.