Curtis LeMay

“If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.”

“The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.”

“We're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.”

“I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.”

“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.”

“There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.”

“No matter what the odds, a man does not run from a fight.”

“I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”

“If you're going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force.”

“I don't mind being called tough, because in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.”