--- title: "4 Airpower Quotes By Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet" description: "4 Airpower quotes by Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet. Plus more from Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet and more Airpower sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet_air-power_we-are-going-to-scourge-the-third-reich_1212807.jpg" --- > [We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/we-are-going-to-scourge-the-third-reich-from-end-to-end-we-are/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet_air-power_we-are-going-to-scourge-the-third-reich_1212807.jpg) > [War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/war-is-a-nasty-dirty-rotten-business-it-s-all-right-for-the-navy-to/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/922/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet_air-power_war-is-a-nasty-dirty-rotten-business-it_2204535.png) > [There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-say-that-bombing-cannot-win-the-war-my/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa3/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet_air-power_there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-say-that-b_2958182.png) > [Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/victory-speedy-and-complete-awaits-the-side-which-first-employs-air/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet_air_victory-speedy-and-complete-awaits-the-s_3108956.jpg) ## Other authors on Airpower ## More by Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet > [The enzyme beta-glucoronidase is necessary to ...'trigger off'.. laetrile…after the laetrile injection, we injected directly into the tumor...beta-glucoronidase. The result was white slough which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/the-enzyme-beta-glucoronidase-is-necessary-to-trigger-off-laetrile/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better… in 1942 and onwards.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/hh-beard-has-perfected-3-excellent-urine-cancer-tests-all-of-proven/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/attacks-on-cities-are-strategically-justified-in-so-far-as-they-tend/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/dresden-there-is-not-such-a-place-any-longer-i-want-to-point-out-that/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/we-are-going-to-scourge-the-third-reich-from-end-to-end-we-are/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/the-nazis-entered-this-war-under-the-rather-childish-delusion-that/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/victory-speedy-and-complete-awaits-the-side-that-employs-air-power-as/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/war-is-a-nasty-dirty-rotten-business-it-s-all-right-for-the-navy-to/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/in-spite-of-all-that-happened-at-hamburg-bombing-proved-a-relatively/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/i-do-not-personally-regard-the-whole-of-the-remaining-cities-of/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-say-that-bombing-cannot-win-the-war-my/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) > [Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/victory-speedy-and-complete-awaits-the-side-which-first-employs-air/) [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/airpower/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/#itemlist", "name": "4 Airpower Quotes By Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. 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