"Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next."
— British Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood, regards plans to bomb the Black forest, 30 September 1939.
"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."
— General H. H. 'Hap' Arnold, USAAF.
"From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or — better still — torn to pieces by the German people themselves."
— Prime Minster Winston Churchill, 14 July 1941.
"We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly."
— Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris
"The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb.' And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'"
— President Lyndon B. Johnson