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
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow 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
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland 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
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge 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 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
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch 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
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
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann 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
Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation,… — Roscoe Turner 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
Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. — Kingsley Wood 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
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
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person? — Donald Rumsfeld 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
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear… — Thomas Gray 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
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
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
