Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.