How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

— John Thomason

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

— Erich Hartmann

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war…

— Giulio Douhet

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement…

— Frontinus

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

— Ferdinand Foch

I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of…

— Ethel Mannin

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

— Adolf Hitler

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming…

— Winston Churchill

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

— Calvin Coolidge

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

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

— Adolf Galland

This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without…

— Philip Alston

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

— Edward R. Murrow

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

— Adolf Galland