Alexander P. de Seversky quotes

Alexander P. de Seversky quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.”
-- Alexander P. de Seversky

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“Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.”
-- Alexander P. de Seversky

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“Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.”
-- Alexander P. de Seversky

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