John P. Jumper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  • With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

  • What one can be, one must be!

  • Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  • Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  • No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

  • With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

  • Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

  • She flew like a bird, only faster.

  • To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.

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