"As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon……" — J F C Fuller
"As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future."
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J F C Fuller
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14 Quotes by J F C Fuller
J F C Fuller has 14 quotes on this site.
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind…
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Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once…
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international…
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy,…
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In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion…
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme.…
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a…
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish…
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Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst…
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Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.
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More Aeroplane Quotes
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It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at…
— Tommy Cooper
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You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the…
— Tony Robbins
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Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a…
— Rajneesh
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The aeroplane will never fly.
— Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
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Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
— Lord Kelvin
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier…
— Isak Dinesen
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The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
— Walter Alexander Raleigh
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed…
— Ross Macpherson Smith
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Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and…
— Charles Rumney Samson
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If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and…
— Prince Philip
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans,…
— Virginia Woolf
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The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying…
— Harriet Quimby
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