Air Power Quotes - Page 2

• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

  Albert Kesselring

  Air, Defeat, Reason

  "Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45". Book by John Nichol and Tony Rennell, 2006.

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• 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

  Arms, Weapons, Aviation

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• Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Military, Goal, Air Force

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• Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Air, Aviation, Defeat

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

  Adolf Galland

  Achievement, Stronger, Aviation

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

  Hoyt Vandenberg

  Military, Believe, Air

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

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Opportunity, Air

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• You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Air, Isis, Cities

  Republican Debate in Las Vegas, time.com. December 15, 2015.

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• In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, War, Air

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

  Erwin Rommel

  Fighting, Air, Enemy

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• Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, Air, Advantage

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• 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 of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, War, Thinking

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• Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Veterans Day, Stay Strong

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, War, Loss

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• 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

  Fighting, Should Have, Necks

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• To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.

  Adolf Galland

  Horse, Air, Bombers

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Flying, Wish, Aviation

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Airplane, Flying, Pilots

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• 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 main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Mean, Air

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• 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 of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Communication, Air

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• When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, War, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

  Adolf Galland

  Air, Battle, Bombers

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Military, Air

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