Curtis LeMay Quotes

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
Curtis LeMay

Enough, Fighting, Stop

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

Time, War, Lost

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.
Curtis LeMay

Time, Future, Situation

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
Curtis LeMay

Age, Stone, Bomb

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 world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Curtis LeMay

Country, Opinion, Times

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
Curtis LeMay

Might, Destroyed, Russia

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

Good, War, Soldier

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.
Curtis LeMay

Age, Problem, Tell

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
Curtis LeMay

Today, Bad, Thinking

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 15, 1906

Died: October 1, 1990

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