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Quotes from Rickenbacker: An Autobiography — Eddie Rickenbacker

1890–1973 United States

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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)

Attribution

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