I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

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.

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

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

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

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

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

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

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

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

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

Forget walking, right now I could fly."-Marcus

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

My daddy, or papa as Ilike to call him is always healthy. Sure, he had the herpes but he managed it very well!

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.