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• They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

  Winston Churchill

  People, London, Would Be

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• I am purely evil;
  Hear the thrum
  of my evil engine;
  Evilly I come.
  The stars are thick as flowers
  In the meadows of July;
  A fine night for murder
  Winging through the sky.

  Ethel Mannin

  Stars, Flower, Night

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• The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, War, Mind

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• Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Sports, War, Aviation

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• Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Hair, Land, Victory

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• From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

  Winston Churchill

  Years, People, Germany

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

  John Thomason

  Military, Cities, Aviation

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• If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Rockets, Aviation

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

  Kingsley Wood

  Asking, Bombs, Next

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

  Hermann Goring

  Enemy, Bombs, Able

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• My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?

  Hermann Goring

  Two, Long, Three

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• I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Children, Mean, Men

  Speech in House of Commons, 10 Nov. 1932

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• There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  War, Winning, People

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• May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fall, Past

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

  Josephus Daniels

  Writing, Men, Dimes

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• I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Air, Support

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• I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Humanity, Looks

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• 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

  Accountability, United States, Damage

  "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.

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• The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Country, Writing, Stupidity

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• Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Civilized Nations, Aviation, Crime

  Jeane Kirkpatrick's speech to the U.N. Security Council, www.upi.com. September 6, 1983.

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• I think that there's an important point to make if you're running for president, which is that you tell the American people how you would handle a crisis. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying here's what I would do in terms of air power, in terms of dealing with the enemy. Donald Trump never says a word. He just says, "I've got a secret plan." He impugns the president .

  Eric Bolling

  Running, Thinking, Air

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.

  Ted Cruz

  War, Army, Air

  Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Air, Isis

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.

  Ted Cruz

  Air, Isis, Needs

  "Republicans Tonight: Let’s Invade Iraq All Over Again". www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2016.

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• There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

  Bob Menendez

  Military, Air, Iraq

  "Dems unite around Obama on Iraq" by : Burgess Everett and Jeremy Herb, www.politico.com. Jne 19, 2014.

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