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Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes

1890–1973 United States

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (born Edward Rickenbacher, October 8, 1890 – July 23, 1973) was an American fighter pilot in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was the most successful and most decorated United States flying ace of the war.

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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

I have always maintained that American infantrymen were the heroes of the war and that Alvin T. York, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, was the greatest hero of them all.

Rickenbacker: An Autobiography (1967)

The future promises that men and women, free to dream and free to work to make their dreams come true, can accomplish anything. There can be no limit to the creative imagination with which a beneficient God has endowed mankind.

Rickenbacker: An Autobiography (1967)

When we arrived home, we found the situation in the United States no better. In vain did I attempt to describe to our military leaders the true situation in Germany. My reports were completely at variance with those coming in from our social-climbing lounge lizards, who were too busy going to cocktail parties to do their jobs.

Rickenbacker: An Autobiography (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eddie Rickenbacker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.