No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.
There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.
I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
