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Explore our hand-picked selection of 22 inspiring quotes by Curtis LeMay.

About Curtis LeMay

  • Born: November 15, 1906
  • Died: October 1, 1990
  • Occupation: Military Commander
    • I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the united states. that doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.
    Attitude War Mean
    My solution to the problem would be to tell the north vietnamese communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
    Horny Age Would Be
    I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the british. but if you do, you'd better not get whipped.
    Peace War Fighting
    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.
    War Criminals Killing
    You [president kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. i think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the cuban missile crisis]. and i'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. in other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.
    Strong War Thinking
    Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? by that time the chinese will have the capability of delivery too.
    Years Chinese Situation
    Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. if they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.
    War Would Be Shooting
    We're at war with japan. we were attacked by japan. do you want to kill japanese, or would you rather have americans killed?
    War Japan Want
    Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
    Self Smoking Wicked
    Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the russians didn't. or when the russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. that was the era when we might have destroyed russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
    Russia Mind Eras
    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.
    Military Age Vietnam
    We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in north korea anyway, someway or another, and some in south korea too. over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
    War Korea Years
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