If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

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.

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.