I could never be so lucky again

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

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.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

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!

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

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

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

I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.