21 Quotes by Jimmy Doolittle

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

We've kept on top of it, ... We knew with storm after storm coming in the Gulf that a bad one was coming. We just didn't know how bad.

It would have been impossible to evacuate out of town. My grandparents both have health problems, and, financially, they had nowhere to go.

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

I could never be so lucky again

Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.

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.

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

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