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My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground forces.

Curtis Lemay's Popular Quotes

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

- Curtis Lemay

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

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If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

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If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save li…

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I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the w…

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I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

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You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

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If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

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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 doin…

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