A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal. — Nathan Farragut Twining Copy Share Image
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. — Albert Kesselring Copy Share Image
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person? — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city. — John Thomason Copy Share Image
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed -… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I think that there's an important point to make if you're running for president, which is that you tell the American people… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In this world, anything is possible. The United States might win a future war relying solely on air power for the first… — Frederick Kagan Copy Share Image
My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill. — Hoyt Vandenberg Copy Share Image
Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image