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Quotes by Aviator
"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."
"Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight."
"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."
"I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars."
"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."
"We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field."
"The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down."
"Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases."
"My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose."
"In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable."
"I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave."
"I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin."
"Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring."
"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."
"One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above."
"I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes."
Time,
"What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream."
"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."
"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."
Life,
"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."
"This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour."
"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."
"Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do."
Will,
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