There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

Without work men are utterly undone

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.