Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal. — Nathan Farragut Twining Copy Share Image
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
“Smith proposed not to use air power, but to employ an ad hoc group to open Mount Igman road into Sarajevo. This… — Jan Willem Honig Copy Share Image
I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty? — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. — Albert Kesselring Copy Share Image
Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. — Kingsley Wood Copy Share Image
Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs. — 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
Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good. — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image