"The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary……" — Eddie Rickenbacker
"The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot."
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36 Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker
Eddie Rickenbacker has 36 quotes on this site.
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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth…
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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
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Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of…
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If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old…
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I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit…
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And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who…
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The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot…
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I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
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The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to…
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a…
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In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of…
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I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation…
— Cordell Hull
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the…
— Jean Vanier
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it
— Jean Chretien
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Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive…
— Unknown Author
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase…
— Norman Thomas
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It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I…
— Hermann Oberth
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There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal…
— Pope John XXIII
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We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the…
— Unknown Author
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