Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1911. With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market. Business Week , 1958. Whatever happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping. Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, on December 4, 1941.