Those who have provided the means for transporting arms and
ammunition and the instruments of wars and massacres on earth will do so in the
air. There will come to exist such instruments as to cause all the means of
destruction in the past to be looked upon as children's playthings.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Responding to a question aboard the Cedric, April 2, 1912,
recorded by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)