I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.