Eddie Rickenbacker

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.