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> [Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/dresden-there-is-not-such-a-place-any-longer-i-want-to-point-out-that/)

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## Other authors on Dresden

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jim-butcher-49689.jpg) Jim Butcher 109 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dresden/jim-butcher/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dresden/kurt-vonnegut/)

## 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/)

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> [...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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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