Air Quote by Winston Churchill

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

— Winston Churchill

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

— Thomas Hardy

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest…

— Giulio Douhet

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the…

— Timothy McVeigh

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

— Billy Mitchell

Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

— J. F. C. Fuller

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

— Giulio Douhet

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share…

— Winston Churchill

Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

— Jack Keane

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or…

— Henry H. Arnold

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy…

— Isoroku Yamamoto