Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.