"The British Islands are small islands and our……" — H.G. Wells

"The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean."

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Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and… — Charles Rumney Samson
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their… — Robert Mugabe
How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds. — Gavin Pretor-Pinney
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who… — Eddie Rickenbacker
It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. — John Masefield
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades. — Hermann Goring
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the… — Manfred von Richthofen
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. — Claude Debussy
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler,… — George Orwell
Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment. — John Amery
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are… — Lawrence Hargrave
Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the… — Billy Connolly

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