And we're neutral.

I--I don't think you ought to!" "Why not?
That's the biggest thing the world has ever seen or will see.
The men that are in it--look what they're doing! It's tremendous, Mary V! It would be hitting a wallop for civilization." "It would be getting yourself killed! And then what?
What good is civilization to you after you're all smashed to pieces?
You--you wouldn't be a drop in the bucket, Johnny Jewel! If it was our war--but to go and butt in on something away over there is absolutely foolish.

What if you got one?
You couldn't get them all, and there'd be a dozen to take its place.
"But that's the way it goes.

You get a streak of perfectly unbelievable good luck, and have an aeroplane just practically drop into your hands, and then you spoil it all by wanting to do some crazy thing that is absolutely idiotic.

I should think you'd be contented with what you've got; but no, you must take your aeroplane right straight over to Europe and let the Germans smash it all to pieces and kill you and everything.
Why, I never _heard_ of anything so absolutely imbecile as that!" "Well, I haven't gone yet," Johnny reminded her.