"I pay those guys to fly, so let……" — Eddie Rickenbacker

"I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there."

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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36 Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker

Eddie Rickenbacker has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth…
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of…
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old…
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who…
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot…
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get…
I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to…

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More Damned Quotes

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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. — Paul Cezanne
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both.… — Jennifer Aniston
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them… — Charles Spurgeon
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a… — John Aubrey
Golf always makes me so damned angry. — George V
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of… — Brigit of Kildare
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very… — Dick Cheney

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