If I Were Entering Adulthood Now Instead

Science, Freedom, Beauty, Adventure: What More Could You Ask Of Life? Aviation Combined All The Elements I Loved. There Was Science In Each Curve Of An Airfoil, In Each Angle Between Strut And Wire, In The Gap Of A Spark Plug Or The Color Of The Exhaust Flame. There Was Freedom In The Unlimited Horizon, On The Open Fields Where One Landed. A Pilot Was Surrounded By Beauty Of Earth And Sky. He Brushed Treetops With The Birds, Leapt Valleys And Rivers, Explored The Cloud Canyons He Had Gazed At As A Child. Adventure Lay In Each Puff Of Wind.

Whatever A Man Imagines He Can Attain, If He Doesn't Become Too Arrogant And Encroach On The Rights Of The Gods.

No Right Of Preference Exists In Favor Of Person, Property, Or Business. Personal Claims And Ambitions Must Yield In Favor Of Whatever Best Serves The General Welfare.

Our Survival, The Future Of Our Civilization, Possibly The Existence Of Mankind, Depends On American Leadership

In Honoring The Wright Brothers, It Is Customary And Proper To Recognize Their Contribution To Scientific Progress. But I Believe It Is Equally Important To Emphasize The Qualities In Their Pioneering Life And The Character In Man That Such A Life Produced. The Wright Brothers Balanced Sucess With Modesty, Science With Simplicity. At Kitty Hawk Their Intellects And Senses Worked In Mutual Support. They Represented Man In Balance, And From That Balance Came Wings To Lift A World.