"If you are going to use military force,……" — Curtis LeMay
"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 save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too."
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Curtis LeMay
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18 Quotes by Curtis LeMay
Curtis LeMay has 18 quotes on this site.
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We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.
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I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks…
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If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.
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I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
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If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
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There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.
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If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.
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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in…
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I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
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You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against…
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Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would…
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Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that…
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