Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.