“Apply whatever force it is necessary to employ, to stop things quickly. The main thing is stop it. The quicker you stop it, the more lives you save.”

—  Curtis LeMay

Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 565.

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American general and politician 1906–1990

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