Perfectionism Spells Paralysis.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

I Am Quite Sure, That If We Open A Quarrel Between The Past And The Present, We Shall Find That We Have Lost The Future.

May It Not Also Be That The Cause Of Civilization Itself Will Be Defended By The Skill And Devotion Of A Few Thousand Airmen? There Never Has Been, I Suppose, In All The World, In All The History Of War, Such An Opportunity For Youth. The Knights Of The Round Table, The Crusaders, All Fall Back Into The Past.

There Are No People In The World Who Are So Slow To Develop Hostile Feelings Against A Foreign Country As The Americans, And No People Who, Once Estranged, Are More Difficult To Win Back.

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. Therefore Our Supreme Effort Must Be To Gain Overwhelming Mastery In The Air. The Fighters Are Our Salvation . . . But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory. . . . In No Other Way At Present Visible Can We Hope To Overcome The Immense Military Power Of Germany.