If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

I could never be so lucky again

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.