"The machine was not perfect, but it was a beginning."

"I believe that my course in sending our Kitty Hawk machine to a foreign museum is the only way of correcting the history of the flying machine, which by false and misleading statements has been perver…"

"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician—something the magician won't tell, and the bird can't tell."

"The machine is a living thing, and must be treated as such."

"The flying machine is a thing of the future, and it is a thing that will change the world."