GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Winston Churchill

There are 24 quotes matching Winston Churchill in the collection:

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land … The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing … I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Memo to Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff and the Chiefs of Staff Committee, 28 March 1945. Under pressure from Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris, Portal and others, Churchill withdrew his memo and issued a new one on 1 April 1945 omitting the words “acts of terror.”

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. This is a memorable milestone in the march of man.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Speech at MIT Mid-Century Convocation, Boston, 31 March 1949.

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

Sir Winston Churchill

Letter to Lord Bevearbrook, 26 September 1953.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Grounding the Comet fleet, April 1954.

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