Curtis LeMay Quotes

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• We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.
• I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects…
• If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.
• I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
• If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
• If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll…
• There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.
• If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.
• My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their…
• I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
• You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that…
• Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a…
• Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have…
• I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout…
• We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
• That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
• Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you,…
• That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is…

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