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I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
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.
The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?
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.
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
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.
This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.
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.
Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
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.
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.
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .
Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.
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.
Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.
It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.