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Air Power Quotes

1.
If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
Jimmy Doolittle

Authors on Air Power Quotes: Adolf Galland Adolf Hitler Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Walter Alexander Raleigh John Thomason Erich Hartmann George Orwell Stanley Baldwin Kingsley Wood George W. Bush J. F. C. Fuller Hermann Goring Ferdinand Foch Husband E. Kimmel Donald Rumsfeld Jeane Kirkpatrick Philip Alston Nathan Farragut Twining Albert Kesselring Jimmy Doolittle Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt
2.
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.
Erich Hartmann

3.
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
Ferdinand Foch

4.
Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.
Hermann Goring

5.
The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attacked in force. If we are moderately strong we shall probably be attacked and the attacks will gradually be bought to a standstill. . . . If we are weak in fighter strength, the attacks will not be bought to a standstill and the productive capacity of the country will be virtually destroyed.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

6.
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
Adolf Galland

7.
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

8.
Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
Adolf Galland

9.
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
Adolf Galland

10.
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.
Albert Kesselring

11.
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

12.
In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

13.
How could they possibly be Japanese planes?
Husband E. Kimmel

14.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

15.
If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.
Nathan Farragut Twining

16.
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.
Adolf Hitler

17.
What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?
George W. Bush

18.
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.
George Orwell

19.
Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.
Kingsley Wood

20.
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.
Philip Alston

21.
I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
Stanley Baldwin

22.
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.
Calvin Coolidge

23.
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
Donald Rumsfeld

24.
If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.
Adolf Hitler

25.
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.
Walter Alexander Raleigh

26.
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.
John Thomason