Henry H. Arnold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Offense is the essence of air power.
-- Henry H. Arnold

#Military #Air #Essence
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.
-- Henry H. Arnold

#Air #Modern #Force
The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.
-- Henry H. Arnold

#Air #Bombs #Firsts
Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.
-- Henry H. Arnold

#Basketball #Waiting #Limits
The technical genius which could find answers ... was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
-- Henry H. Arnold

#Military #Science #People
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.
-- Henry H. Arnold

#Military #Opportunity #Air
It's got to be done and done quickly, so let's get it done.
-- Henry H. Arnold

#Done #Get It Done

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!
Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

Henry H. Arnold famous quotes

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