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“Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.”
“We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.”
“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”
“Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.”
“Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.”
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”
“Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.”
“There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.”
“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.”
“In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.”
“Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.”
“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.”
“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”
“No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.”
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
“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.”
“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've had enough publicity for 15 lives.”
“Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.”
“We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.”