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Quotes from Mission With LeMay: My Story — Curtis LeMay

1906–1990 United States

← All quotes by Curtis LeMay

5 quotes

Apply whatever force it is necessary to employ, to stop things quickly. The main thing is stop it. The quicker you stop it, the more lives you save.

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

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...

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more. if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

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.

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Curtis LeMay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.