It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.
Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
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