Curtis LeMay

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive…

— Curtis LeMay

We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and…

— Curtis LeMay

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

— Curtis LeMay

Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't.…

— Curtis LeMay

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns…

— Curtis LeMay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

— Curtis LeMay

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to…

— Curtis LeMay

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

— Curtis LeMay

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

— Curtis LeMay

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

— Curtis LeMay

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the…

— Curtis LeMay

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

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let…

— Curtis LeMay

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse…

— Curtis LeMay

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

— Curtis LeMay

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

— Curtis LeMay

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

— Curtis LeMay

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

— Curtis LeMay

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans…

— Curtis LeMay

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been…

— Curtis LeMay

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use…

— Curtis LeMay

We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.

— Curtis LeMay

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd…

— Curtis LeMay

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of…

— Curtis LeMay

You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons.…

— Curtis LeMay