41 Quotes by Curtis LeMay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

We’re going to bomb them back into the stone Age.

If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

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

You’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough they stop fighting.

I don’t mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it’s the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you’ll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy’s too.

I don’t have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

Don’t like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars.