"We were not discouraged by our failures, but rather stimulated to renewed effort."

"We have hopes of making a flight of considerable length before long."

"The age of the flying machine is at hand."

"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…"

"I confess that, in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for 50 years. Two years later, we were making flights. This demonstration of my inability as a prophet gave me such a shock…"