The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
H. G. WellsIf Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
H. G. WellsBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WellsThe British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.
H. G. Wells