Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge 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
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet 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
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children… — Neville Chamberlain 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
I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to… — Jules Vedrines Copy Share Image
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks… — Erik Prince 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
Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only… — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational… — Merrill McPeak Copy Share Image
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It… — Kishore Chandra Deo Copy Share Image
We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for… — Frontinus Copy Share Image
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the… — Ethel Mannin Copy Share Image
The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been… — Ferdinand Foch 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
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
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