The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.