"In its campaign to discredit others in the flying art, the Smithsonian has issued scores of these false and misleading statements."

"The machine has been working very nicely and we have been making several flights each day."

"We had to be our own mechanics, our own engineers, and our own scientists."

"I know of only one bird — the parrot — that talks; and it can't fly very high."

"We could not understand why the calculation of Lilienthal and others were so much in error."