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

I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It y….

Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsen….

I could never be so lucky again.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down..

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939.

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..

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be r….

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

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 aviatio….

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

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a….

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer..