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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.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Conquered, we conquer.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.