Quotes on Airmen

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.